However, up to 40 per cent of your body's energy goes into supplying the microscopic sodium-potassium pump with the energy it needs. It's not visible to the naked eye and you can't feel it.

The three small sodium ions are bound inside the pump (violet spheres to the left), whereas there is not sufficient room for the larger potassium ions (green spheres to the right).

It's used to treat heart failure and atrial fibrillation and works by blocking structures in heart cells called sodium-potassium pumps, which keep the levels of sodium and potassium inside cells ...

"The larger they are, the more successful they are." The Achilles' heel of CTC clusters are the sodium-potassium pumps (also known as Na + /K +-ATPases), which are located in the membranes of ...

This diagram shows molecules moving from area of low concentration to area of high concentration with energy: The proteins pump sodium out of the cells and potassium into the cells. This helps ...

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 ...

Other proteins found embedded within the membrane act as: pumps - for example the sodium potassium pump that pumps sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell. pores - which allow ions of a ...