Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have identified a key gene that could lead to next-generation ...

KCNQ1 is a potassium ion channel that plays a crucial role in regulating the electrical activity of the heart. It is responsible for the cardiac I Ks current, which is essential for maintaining a ...

Figure 4: Three ions in the potassium channel. From the medical point of view, the story is just beginning. Considering their ubiquity, it seems safe to predict that ion channel mutations will be ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have identified a key gene that could lead to next-generation ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa ...

SickKids researchers identified the KCNB2 gene as a key driver of medulloblastoma tumor growth. Blocking KCNB2 disrupts ...

Ion Channels: Proteins that allow ions to pass in and out of the neuron ... This rapid depolarization is essential for the propagation of the electrical signal along the neuron. Potassium channels are ...

Initially, the reconstitution of sub-mitochondrial particles into artificial lipid membranes and the patch-clamp technique of mitoplasts were pivotal in unveiling the properties and functions of ...

In addition, the growth and migration of glioma cells were observed as regulated by the upregulation of splice variants of large potassium channels (Liu et al., 2002). Recently, it has been reported ...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have identified a key gene that could lead to next-generation treatments for medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children.