EXCITABILITY CONSTRAINTS ON VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS.

Excitability constraints on voltage-gated sodium channels.

We study how functional constraints bound and shape evolution through an analysis of mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels.The primary function of sodium channels is to allow the propagation of action potentials.Since Hodgkin and Huxley, mathematical models have suggested that sodium channel properties need to be tightly constrained for an action

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Transcriptomic Profiling of the Allorecognition Response to Grafting in the Demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica

Sponges, despite their simple body plan, discriminate between self and nonself with remarkable specificity.Sponge grafting experiments simulate the effects of natural self or nonself contact under laboratory conditions.Here we take a transcriptomic approach to investigate the temporal response to self and nonself grafts in the marine demosponge Amp

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Effect of Rotation in an Orthotropic Elastic Slab

The fundamental equations of the two dimensional generalized Glasses thermoelasticity (L-S model) with one relaxation time parameter in orthotropic elastic slab has been considered under effect of rotation.The normal mode analysis is used to the basic equations of motion and heat conduction equation.Finally, the resulting equations are written in t

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