Fundamentals

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What are ion channels?

Alfred Nobel

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Nobel Prizes

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Why we should care about ion channels

“… ion channels are the most important single class of proteins that exist in the human body or any body…” – Clay Armstrong
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History of ion channels

Before the 1660s the Theory of Animal Spirits dominated thinking regarding the function of the nervous system. “Animal spirits” (originating in the brain) were believed to control movements of the body by flowing through the nerves into the muscles.

Ion channel research in numbers

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