Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 11:07
in Biology & Nature
Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts -- called an ion channel -- must open in the surface of each cell in these organs to let in the chemical signals that spur the cell to action.