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What's ion channels?
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Electric: Your brain, nerves, heart, and muscles work by signals transmitted along membranes; these travel by channels that admit different ions (sodium, potassium, calcium, probably others) at different times in response to one another. How an electric charge moves through the body. Many medications affect them for better or worse.
Answered 10/13/2012
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