A type of ion channel that pushes sodium ions out and potassium ions in at a significant energy cost.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Openings in the cell membrane that allow certain ions pass through when the channel is open.

Ion Channels

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

Mutations in genes that code ion channels can result in changes to the structure, and therefore the function, of ion channels. The medical conditions arising from this genetic mutation are known as channelopathies, and are increasingly thought to be a major cause of epilepsy. 

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