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Novel animal-health drug targets from ligand-gated chloride channels
The world's three best-selling veterinary antiparasitic drugs ('parasiticides') act on ligand-gated ion channels. The sequencing of the complete...
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Learning the language of cell-cell communication through connexin channels
A report on the Ninth International Gap Junction Conference, Honolulu, USA, 4-9 August 2001.
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What canCaenorhabditis elegans tell us about nematocides and parasites?
Nematode infections compromise human health and reduce agricultural productivity. Experiments that exploit the powerful molecular genetics of the...
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Seeing is relieving: electrical synapses between visualized neurons
Two reports of electrical synapses between identified inhibitory neurons in the neocortex suggest that many neuron types known to communicate...
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Structure of the Ductin Channel
Gap junctions appear to be essential components of metazoan animals providing a means of direct means of communication between neighboring cells....