Gap junction

found in the economic industry is the gap between a woman 's average income and a man 's average income. According to the Statistics Canada data report conducted in 2011, women made an estimated 74 cents for every dollar a man made in relation to full­time income. This is actually better than in 1987 where women were paid only 64 cents for every dollar made by a full­time male worker. Statistics show that the gap between male and female…

In today’s society, the achievement gap continues to exist. Author Diane Ravitch, wrote “The Facts about the Achievement Gap”, an excerpt from her book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, published in 2013. Ravitch’s purpose is to convey the idea that closing the achievement gap doesn’t solely rely upon the schooling system. She explains how her argument stems from our unwillingness to improve the conditions of communities and how…

The inequality gap takes into consideration the wage gap, job opportunities, health outcomes and more. A news article “Global Gender Gap report finds modest improvements” written by Janet McFarland goes into detail about the current position of the gender gap. The following will explore the reasons behind the persistence of this social issue such as household labour responsibilities discussed…

Data on the topic of the achievement gap were collected such as political and societal factors. The political factors included such subsets as legislative decisions, voting, and getting the right representatives in place to make the students’ concerns known. The societal factors were advancements in technology, environment, and exposure to the wrong influences. However because content analysis was used, these topics were not discussed enough to emerge into a theme (Merriam, 2009). In laymen’s…

general educated audience because it presents basic rules in which guide neural connectivity in the neocortex. The sister neurons become electrically coupled, which is a spread of potential change from one cell to another, by current flow through gap junctions, the region of contact between two cells. This is done during the postnatal period of the cortex, which also revealed correlated spiking activity in brain slices. Afterwards, the cells showed high probabilities of developing connections…

Each cell is relatively small, and has one nucleus (sometimes 2) They are connected by microscopic features of the cardiac muscle. This is known as the intercalated discs. These intercalated discs contain cell structures called desmosomes and gap junctions. Compared to skeletal muscle cells, these cells are Y shaped and are a lot shorter and wider. Desmosomes are thick patches in the cell membrane region, usually lying between two cells. The tissues are rigid in a cardiac muscle cell…

Potent block of Cx36 and Cx50 gap junction channels by mefloquine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 101(33): 12364-12369. Essen, T., Giessen, R., Koekkoek, S., Vanderwerf, F., Zeeuw, C., Genderen, P., Jeu, M. 2010. Anti-Malaria Drug Mefloquine Induces Motor Learning Deficits…

migration into the airway lumen. Airway epithelial cells are situated well to play a crucial role in host response by providing a physical and an immunological barrier to inhaled pathogens. This physical barrier mediated by epithelial cell-to-cell junctions inhibits pathogens from invading, and the immunological barrier is attained through epithelial cell recognition of bacteria and swift signaling to recruit phagocytes and clear the infection. A central component in regulating the…

Between the ends of the muscle cells there are specialised intercellular junctions that are called intercalated discs. Intercalated discs are irregular transverse thickenings of the sarcolemma that contains structures that are called desmosomes and these hold muscle fibres together.…

cells endure profound changes in response to nerve injury. These changes are caused by an increased expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein, decreased expression and sensitivity to potassium channels, increased satellite cell coupling by gap junctions, increased sensitivity to ATP, and the release of ATP and…