Chloride channels and antiport mechanisms are pivotal for maintaining cellular ion homeostasis and regulating physiological processes such as muscle contraction, epithelial fluid transport and ...

Researchers have found that a primitive type of ion channel similar to those found in mammalian nerve cells helps bacteria resist the blast of acid they encounter in the stomach of their hosts. The ...

Efforts to understand the most common cause of vision loss in millions of elderly people have led to the discovery of an entirely new family of chloride ion channels that are found in animals from ...

Credit: Shutterstock. NMD670 is a first-in-class small molecule inhibitor of the skeletal muscle specific chloride ion channel. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug ...

Scientists identified a previously unknown chloride ion channel, which they named alkaliphile (Alka), as a taste receptor for alkaline pH. The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact ...

Aarhus, Denmark, 25 March 2025 – NMD Pharma A/S, a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing novel and improved treatments for patients living with neuromuscular diseases, today announces ...

NMD Pharma Publishes Comprehensive Data Package for NMD670 in Science Translational Medicine ClC-1 is a chloride ion channel specifically expressed in skeletal muscle cells that normally dampens ...

Neuromuscular disease specialist NMD Pharma A/S has been given U.S. FDA approval for a phase IIb trial of NMD-670, after demonstrating proof of mechanism for the orally-available chloride ion ...