{"id":182,"date":"2016-11-14T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T17:17:25","slug":"voltage-gated-ion-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/14\/voltage-gated-ion-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltage-Gated Ion Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Voltage-gated ion channels<\/strong> are proteins that permit or prevent the passage of ions into the cell. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/neuron\/\">neuron<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/15\/voltage-gated-sodium-channels\/\">sodium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/16\/voltage-gated-potassium-channels\/\">potassium channels<\/a> are of greatest interest. &#8220;Voltage-gated&#8221; refers to the capacity to change conformation based on <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/membrane-potential\/\">membrane potential<\/a>. This means that a voltage-gated channel will open at certain membrane voltages and close again at a different voltage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-183 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"general-voltage-gated-ion-channel\" width=\"362\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel-360x179.jpg 360w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/General-voltage-gated-ion-channel.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.6667px\">(&#8220;Voltage-gated ion channels&#8221;, 2016)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/glossary-of-terms\/\">Back to Glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voltage-gated ion channels are proteins that permit or prevent the passage of ions into the cell. In the neuron, sodium and potassium channels are of greatest interest. &#8220;Voltage-gated&#8221; refers to the capacity to change conformation based on membrane potential. This <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/14\/voltage-gated-ion-channel\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}