Talk:Voltage-gated ion channel

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The individual types of voltage gated ion channels have a bigger write up than this page and they both go into greater depth than a newbie would be interested in. This page should probably be used to give a broad introduction to them, their importance to the generation of action potentials and heart rhythms. Discussions of their locations on basal dendrites and spine heads would be worthwhile. Perhaps a discussion of related mathematics and how adding various channels can push limit cycles and bifurcations around the phase space.--Andorin (talk) 18:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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"They have a minor role in excitable neuronal and muscle tissues"

What ridiculous kind of misleading statement is that? They are fundamental to the workings of neurons and minor variations in their type and location can result in entirely differant qualitative effects. --134.225.184.116 (talk) 17:54, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Normally, I'd invite you to be bold and fix it yourself, but I've already reverted it to the previous information. It appears to have been the victim of a newbie editor. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where do the ions come from?

After reading this page, it's not so clear to me where the ions come from. They are coming through the channels on the membrane that can be opened/closed by certain mechanisms... but who is sending/generating them? Is this another inter-Neuron connection apart from the dendrites/synapses? (I am not a biologist, so please excuse my lack of proper terminology) 134.100.6.103 (talk) 18:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)