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Ion Channel Gating

"Ion Channel Gating" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The opening and closing of ion channels due to a stimulus. The stimulus can be a change in membrane potential (voltage-gated), drugs or chemical transmitters (ligand-gated), or a mechanical deformation. Gating is thought to involve conformational changes of the ion channel which alters selective permeability.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ion Channel Gating" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Ion Channel Gating" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 33 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1997
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