The story of the sodium-potassium pump has strong ties to Denmark. In 1997, the Danish scientist Jens Chr. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, and over the years, research on ...

Alcohol is used, and in some cases abused, by millions of people worldwide. How it acutely changes brain function to cause inebriation, and chronically changes brain function to cause dependency, is ...

A newly discovered serious disease which causes children to suffer epileptic seizures, loss of magnesium in urine and reduced intelligence has been mapped by Professor Bente Vilsen from Aarhus ...

The story of the sodium-potassium pump has strong ties to Denmark. In 1997, the Danish scientist Jens Chr. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, and over the years, research on ...

Hemiplegia, the paralysis of one side of the body, is a clinical manifestation observed in various neurological disorders. In several cases, the underlying aetiology involves dysfunction of the Na+/K+ ...

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center study shows functional effects of specific mutations of the Na/K pump found in tumors that induce primary aldosteronism Researchers at Texas Tech ...

New York, NY - A toxin isolated from coral reefs has enabled US scientists to better understand exactly how the sodium/potassium ion pump works and may ultimately help them to design molecules to make ...

Scientists at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch have discovered a new function of the cardiac sodium pump. During embryonic heart morphogenesis, the pump generates a change in ...

Researchers have succeeded in identifying the mechanisms involved in what is known as the acid pump, which at the cellular level pumps acid into the stomach -- in some cases leading to gastric ulcers ...

Elevated blood levels of endogenous digitalis-like factors (EDLF) may decrease erythrocyte sodium pump activity in preeclampsia. As the highest EDLF levels might be expected in severe preeclampsia, we ...