Title: Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels
Description: Voltage-sensitive ion channels are macromolecules embedded in the membranes of nerve and muscle fibers.  Their mutations are involved in many diseases.  Because of their switching properties and selective ion conduction, they are at an intersection of biology, chemistry and physics.  This book examines critically both traditional approaches such as the gated pore model and physically oriented approaches, which help explain the stochastic nature of the ion currents that traverse them.
Subjects: Sodium channels, potassium channels, calcium channels, ferroelectric liquid crystal, alpha helix, hydrogen bond, Biochemistry, Soft condensed matter, Biomedical engineering, Physiology, Neurobiology, Life Sciences, SCIENCE, Ion channels, Physique, Electrophysiology, Ion Channels, Biological transport, Animal Biochemistry, Complex Fluids Soft Matter, Biophysics/Biomedical Physics, Physics
Places: Woods Hole, MA
People: Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley, Georg Zundel, Kenneth S. Cole, Harvey M. Fishman, Ichiji Tasaki, Vladimir Bystrov
Time periods: 1952 to 2008