The heart drug digoxin could potentially be combined with existing cancer therapies to prevent the spread of tumors, an early ...
Large amounts of sodium and potassium are lost in stool as a result ... and occasionally from decreased activity of Na +,K +-ATPase. Hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia and hypophosphatemia are common ...
Figure 1: My 1967 thesis drawing of an excitable membrane showing three separate types of ion channels Na, K and leak (L), as well as the Na-K ATPase ... pores of sodium and potassium channels ...
Digoxin blocks the sodium/potassium ATPase pump. The mechanism by which this decreases AV conduction is not clear but is perhaps due to increased vagal tone. Intracellular calcium within the ...