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).

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"The larger they are, the more successful they are." The Achilles' heel of CTC clusters are the sodium-potassium pumps (also ...

"This stimulates a sodium pump to reabsorb sodium in exchange for potassium resulting in increased loss of potassium from the blood." So, you end up losing more potassium in your urine, than you ...

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 ...

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 ...