In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

These include the hair cells of the mammalian inner ear and the touch receptor cells of both human finger pads and Venus fly traps. Cells that respond to touch have their ion channel receptors ...

In a new study, a team led by medical researchers at The Ohio State University has determined that these vesicles contain an ion channel—a protein that opens a corridor allowing electrical ...

typically involved knocking out various ion channels important in sensory neuronal function from mouse models and observing the effects. But in the mid-2000s, a peculiar story about a boy in Pakistan ...