Although several types of excitable cells exist — including neurons, muscle cells, and touch receptor cells — all of them use ion channel receptors to convert chemical or mechanical messages ...

Ion channels are ... The directionality of channels is dictated by the electrochemical gradient. TARPs are tetraspanins that are claudin-like but regulate glutamate receptors.

Their findings are published in Science Advances. Cys-loop receptors are ligand-gated ion channels with two domains connected by a short linker. The top domain is located extracellularly ...