How to Use ion channel in a Sentence

ion channel

noun

• These ions move in and out of the cell via pores known as ion channels.
  — Jenny Wilkerson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The challenge was to find the right ion channel to target with a drug.
  — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
• Whether an ion channel is open or closed is context dependent.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Interrupting this flow, a process called ion channel disruption, works, but kills healthy cells, too.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2019
• The researchers discovered that two members of a class of ion channels that can sense a change in temperature were present in neural crest cells from chickens and mice.
  — Aimee Cunningham, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• Azithromycin raises concerns because it, too, can block ion channels and tinker with the heart’s electrical pattern.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 21 Apr. 2020
• After a single two-day bath in a widely available ion channel drug, the tadpoles rearranged themselves and grew as normal.
  — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
• Scientists could now clone cells with and without particular ion channels and see what happened.
  — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
• The ion channels in their neurons, which these venom toxins target, have mutated so the toxin is ineffective.
  — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2016
• For about two-thirds of patients, drugs that modify the function of ion channels—proteins in the membranes of neurons and other brain cells that transmit electrical signals—fully restrain seizures.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
• Both could disable gated ion channels embedded in the membranes that control electrical impulses in nerves.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
• Normally, such an ion channel would be invisible—but if there happens to be an electrical storm underway, the channel would offer a conduit for lightning.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• During exercise, bones are stimulated and a mechanosensitive ion channel called Pizeo1 is activated on the LepR+Oln+ cells.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Feb. 2021
• Insects use many other classes of ion channel olfactory receptors, including ones that are much more complex and much more specific than those of the jumping bristletail.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired, 27 June 2021
• Another shelf in the toolkit [could have] say, different payloads—enzymes or ion channels that could be used to alter activity, or gene-editing enzymes that would correct a mutation.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
• Through experimentation, Liu and Benner discovered that the ion channels of these crest cells were sensitive to temperature.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
• Sydney Funnel Web spider venom contains a compound known as atracotoxin, a highly toxic ion channel inhibitor.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
• The tiny gap between two myelin segments exposes a one-micron section of bare axon where ion channels that generate electrical impulses become concentrated.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• The catechins are responsible for activating a potassium ion channel called KCNQ5.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Mar. 2021
• The respiratory muscles probably have about a hundred different ion channels that are ultimately responsible for normal contraction and relaxation of respiratory muscles.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024