{"id":649585,"date":"2020-03-18T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649585"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:37:39","slug":"ball-and-chain-inactivation-of-ion-channels-visualized-by-cryo-electron-microscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649585","title":{"rendered":"Ball-and-chain inactivation of ion channels visualized by cryo-electron microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal &#8216;firing&#8217; in the central nervous system and for brain and heart function. These channels use a &#8221;ball-and-chain&#8221; mechanism to help regulate their ion flow, according to a new study.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/03\/200318143739.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ball-and-chain inactivation of ion channels visualized by cryo-electron microscopy<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal &#8216;firing&#8217; in the central nervous system and for brain and heart&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}