July 24, 2012
Neurobiologists at SISSA have discovered the regulation mechanism of a particular group of ionic channels which have been deceiving scientists for twenty years. Transmission of electric signals carried by neurons and many other physiological mechanisms are due to the action of ionic channels. A SISSA study, that unveils new details on a specific group of these molecules, important for the sensory system, has now been published in Nature Communications (A. Marchesi, M. Mazzolini, V. Torre, "Gating of cyclic nucleotide gated channels is voltage dependent", Nat. Commun., 24 July 2012).
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