how does ttx block sodium channels?
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Tetrodotoxin is a sodium channel blocker. It inhibits the firing of action potentials in neurons by binding to the voltage-gated sodium channels in nerve cell membranes and blocking the passage of sodium ions (responsible for the rising phase of an action potential) into the neuron.
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Afoxolaner kills fleas and ticks by selectively binding to GABA-gated and glutamate-gated chloride channels in insect and acarine nerve cell membranes. What this means is it attacks the central nervous system of the flea and tick sending them into hyperexcitation which results in uncontrolled activity and death.
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Sodium-channel blockers comprise the Class I antiarrhythmic compounds according to the Vaughan-Williams classification scheme. These drugs bind to and block the fast sodium channels that are responsible for the rapid depolarization (phase 0) of fast-response cardiac action potentials.
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Voltage-gated sodium channels are transmembrane proteins (Fig. 1A) that are responsible for the rapid depolarization that underlies the upstroke of action potentials in neurons and are thus crucial to nerve impulse conduction.
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Voltage gated ion channels open in response to voltage (i.e. when the cell gets depolarized) where as ligand gated channels open in response to a ligand (some chemical signal) binding to them. ... The ligand gated channels open up and allow the influx of sodium, which depolarizes the cell.
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Sodium also plays a part in nerve impulses and muscle contractions. Potassium chloride and sodium chloride is a combination mineral supplement that may be helpful in reducing tiredness, muscle cramps, or heat prostration that can occur when you sweat more than usual.
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Thus, it reduces sodium and water in the body but also prevents the depletion of potassium. For this reason, triamterene is called a potassium sparing diuretic. By combining hydrochlorothiazide with triamterene, sodium and water are eliminated from the body without the loss of potassium.
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Only when both Neuron A and Neuron B are activated does the NMDA receptor become activated: magnesium unblocks the channel and glutamate opens the channel. In this way, the NMDA receptor acts as a “coincidence detector” that detects the simultaneous activation of both Neuron A and Neuron B.
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Ligand-Gated Ion Channels. ... Whereas the voltage-gated ion channels underlying the action potential typically allow only one type of ion to permeate, channels activated by extracellular ligands are usually less selective, allowing two or more types of ions to pass through the channel pore.
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Levothyroxine sodium tablets USP contain synthetic crystalline L-3,3',5,5' tetraiodothyronine sodium salt [Levothyroxine (T4) sodium]. Synthetic T4 is chemically identical to that produced in the human thyroid gland.
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These pumps push sodium ions out of the cell, and potassium ions (K+) into the cell. ... They stay put and give the cell a negative charge inside. So, when an axon is at rest, the anions give it a negative charge, the sodium pumps keep sodium out and potassium in, and the sodium gates and potassium gates are all closed.
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Furosemide (Lasix) is a potent diuretic (water pill) that is used to eliminate water and salt from the body. In the kidneys, salt (composed of sodium and chloride), water, and other small molecules normally are filtered out of the blood and into the tubules of the kidney.
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For acquired TTP, medicines can slow or stop antibodies to the ADAMTS13 enzyme from forming. Medicines used to treat TTP include glucocorticoids, vincristine, rituximab, and cyclosporine A. Sometimes surgery to remove the spleen (an organ in the abdomen) is needed.
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Toxicity. Fugu contains lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin in its inner organs, especially the liver, the ovaries, eyes, and skin. The poison, a sodium channel blocker, paralyzes the muscles while the victim stays fully conscious; the poisoned victim is unable to breathe, and eventually dies from asphyxiation.
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Most local anaesthetics are weak bases, with a pKa between 8 and 9, so that they are mainly but not completely ionised at physiological pH. The un-charged species (B) penetrates the nerve sheath and axonal membrane and is then converted to the BH+ active form, which then blocks the Na+ channels.
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An action potential begins at the axon hillock as a result of depolarisation. During depolarisation voltage gated sodium ion channels open due to an electrical stimulus. As the sodium rushes back into the cell the positive sodium ions raise the charge inside the cell from negative to positive.