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unusual facts about voltage-gated calcium channel



Amplifier

There are four basic types of electronic amplifier: the voltage amplifier, the current amplifier, the transconductance amplifier, and the transresistance amplifier.

Analog chip

The voltage and current at specified points in the circuits of an analog chips vary continuously in time.

Aristes, Pennsylvania

In 1948, United Airlines Flight 624 hit a high-voltage powerline and crashed in Aristes.

Broadcast transmitter

For example, the Allouis, Konstantynow and Roumoules transmitters are fed from the high-voltage network (110 kV in Alouis and Konstantynow, 150 kV in Roumoules) even though a power supply from the medium-voltage level of the power grid (about 20 kV) would be able to deliver enough power.

Capacitor

In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania in Germany found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.

Comparator

In electronics, a comparator is a device that compares two voltages or currents and outputs a digital signal indicating which is larger.

Constant voltage

Voltage source, electrical power source that regulate voltage to a constant level

Electrode boiler

The electrodes are connected to a high voltage A.C. source (typically 6,600 volts to 13,800 volts){If D.C. voltage is used Electrolysis of water occurs decomposing water into its elements H2 at the cathode(-ve electrode) and O2 at the anode(+ve electrode)}.

EM Microelectronic-Marin

EM Microelectronic-Marin SA, based in Marin near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a developer and semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial areas.

Gabhricha Paus

Kisna never gives up even till the end, where ill-advised, he naively tries to tap electric power from the high voltage Electric power transmission lines to power his water pump of the recently installed bore-well and loses his life by electrocution.

Ghauth Jasmon

He has researched in the areas of Power Systems Analysis, Network Analysis, Voltage Stability, System Security and Neural Networks.

Gnome Monosoupape

This arrangement eliminated the need for points, distributor, high-voltage wiring and capacitors found in conventional mechanically timed ignition systems.

Grove cell

By the time of the American Civil War, as telegraph traffic increased, the Grove cell's tendency to discharge poisonous nitrogen dioxide (NO2) fumes proved increasingly hazardous to health, and as telegraphs became more complex, the need for constant voltage became critical.

Haywards

Supply transformers at Haywards step down voltage to 33 kV and 11 kV and provide a connection to the Wellington Electricity subtransmission and distribution network serving the central-north Hutt Valley, from Trentham in the north to Taita in the south.

Heteroscodratoxin-1

Heteroscodratoxin-1 inhibits subtypes of both delayed rectifier (voltage-gated potassium channels.

High voltage

High-voltage lightning discharges in the atmosphere of Jupiter are thought to be the source of the planet's powerful radio frequency emissions.

HyperCloud Memory

:At Interop Las Vegas Netlist introduced the low voltage HyperCloud product line and demonstrated 4GB low voltage HyperCloud module in an IBM x3550 M3 server running at 1067 MT/s.

Insulin signal transduction pathway and regulation of blood glucose

The closure of the Potassium channels causes Depolarization of the cell membrane causing the cell membrane to stretch which causes the voltage-gated Calcium channel on the membrane to open causing an influx of Ca2+ ions.

Ionizer

Air ioniser, a device that uses high voltage to ionise air molecules

Joondalup Drive

One of the main delays in construction of the Wanneroo Road carriage duplication was the relocation of 225KVa high voltage power lines from the Tapping Substation that resided within the road reserve area that was needed for these works.

Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The ex-Reading's electrification system, however, relies on a transformer at Wayne Junction, and separate high-voltage pylons for longer-distance trains, similar to those found on European high-speed rail systems and on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston.

Lightning sphere

Plasma globe, a decorative electrical device using high voltage discharge within a transparent enclosure containing an inert gas

Line voltage

Mains electricity by country (list of countries with mains voltage and frequency)

Live at High Voltage Festival

Live At High Voltage is a 2 CD set released by the progressive rock band Spock's Beard recorded by Concert Live.

LM13700

The LM13700 is like a standard op-amp: each has a pair of differential inputs and a single output, but an OTA is voltage in and current out rather than voltage in and voltage out; and OTAs are programmable via the IABC pin.

Luxembourg railway station

The station has some voltage-switchable tracks for Line 50 to Arlon, which is electrified with the Belgian voltage of 3kV DC.

Marienfelde

Near the end of World War II, as part of the Elbe-Project, the world's first high-voltage direct current transmission lines were built from a power plant in Dessau, on the Elbe river, to Marienfelde.

Metadyne

This turned the machine from a voltage-to-current amplifier into a voltage-to-voltage amplifier, and they called the new variant an Amplidyne.

Metal gate

Earlier PMOS technologies were not sensitive to this effect because the positively-charged sodium was naturally attracted towards the negatively-charged gate, and away from the channel, minimizing threshold voltage shifts.

MLC1

Furthermore, MLC1 has highest homology with the KCNA1 shaker-related voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv1.1).

Modified nodal analysis

The MNA uses the element's Branch Constitutive Equations or BCE, i.e., their voltage - current characteristic and the Kirchhoff's circuit laws.

Operational transconductance amplifier

The operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is an amplifier whose differential input voltage produces an output current.

Reactance

Electrical reactance, the opposition to a change in voltage due to capacitance (capacitive reactance) or in current due to inductance (inductive reactance)

Ringtone

In old phones, this voltage was used to trigger a high-impedance electromagnet to ring a bell on the phone.

Salomón Hakim

At 22 years of age, Hakim started medical school at Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, but his passion for electricity continued and led him to perform research in electrical output during digestion, the effects of low voltage on womb contraction, and the calcium formation stimulation by electrolysis.

San Manuel, Pangasinan

NGCP's San Manuel street-lighting project: the National Transmission Corporation (National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, NGCP) electrified San Manuel from Nagsaag Extra-High Voltage (EHV) substation down to Asuncion Street.

Silicon photomultiplier

The supply voltage (Vb) depends on APD technology used, and typically varies between 25 V and 70 V, thus being from 30 to 50 times lower than the voltage required for a traditional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) operation.

Single-phase generator

Neckarwestheim I in Neckarwestheim is a unique nuclear power plant in that it is equipped with high-capacity single-phase generators to supply Deutsche Bahn railway with specific AC voltage at frequency of 16 2/3 Hz.

Snubber

Snubbers are frequently used in electrical systems with an inductive load where the sudden interruption of current flow leads to a sharp rise in voltage across the current switching device, in accordance with Faraday's law.

South African Class 19E

In 2009 Transnet Freight Rail placed the first of 110 new Class 19E single cab dual voltage 3 kV DC and 25 kV AC electric locomotives with a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement in service on the Coalink line from Ermelo to Richards Bay.

Steve Brudniak

His art incorporates, often pioneering, unconventional media and scientific elements such as high voltage electricity, Tesla coil technology, magnetic ferrofluid, gyro mechanics, biological preservations, fiber optics, and lasers.

Stockholm metro

The Stockholm metro runs electrically using a third rail with a nominal operating voltage of 650 V DC on line 13,14, 17, 18 and 19,and 750 V DC on the line 10 and 11.

Teleforce

Tesla's records indicate that the device is based on a narrow stream of small tungsten pellets that are accelerated via high voltage (by means akin to his magnifying transformer).

Thermo Electron

Zetatron, a high-voltage vacuum tube device that generates a stream of neutrons

Thermocouple

In 1821, the GermanEstonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered that when any conductor is subjected to a thermal gradient, it will generate a voltage.

TROX-1

TROX-1 is a drug which acts as a potent blocker of the Cav2 type calcium channels.

TrueCookPlus

After the user enters the code, the TrueCookPlus adjusts the cooking to conform to USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service standards for food type, weight, packaging size/shape and starting state; taking into account static microwave oven variables such as wattage, cavity size, wall voltage, hot or cold oven state, elevation above sea level and standing time.

Vladimír List

His was successful in effort to standardize voltages for transmission lines in Czechoslovakia in 1919 (220/380V for low voltage and 22kV/100kV for high-voltage lines) and power plug sockets.

Voltage spike

While generally referred to as a voltage spike, the phenomenon in question is actually an energy spike, in that it is measured not in volts but in joules; a transient response defined by a mathematical product of voltage, current, and time.

Voltage-gated potassium-channel Kv1.4 IRES

This region has been shown to mediate internal ribosome entry in cells derived from brain, heart, and skeletal muscle; tissues known to express mRNA species.


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