Membrane Channel Critical to Blood Pressure Control Visualized for First Time

Scientists report that they have visualized the three-dimensional structure of a membrane channel that's critical in controlling blood pressure. Their findings (“ Structure of the human epithelial sodium channel by cryo-electron microscopy ”), published in  eLife , represent the first time the human epithelial sodium channel has been shown so precisely since it was first isolated and described through expression cloning in 1993, says senior author Isabelle Baconguis, P