It took several years of further experiments and analysis, but During and his colleagues ultimately concluded that the mild stress of all that activity and interaction activated a communication channel that prompts fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin, which accelerates cancer growth.

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That change happens because something gets triggered in the membrane, and what gets triggered is a voltage gated sodium channel, which is shown here.

变化的原因是膜上某些东西被触发了,被触发的是钠离子电压门控通道,展示在这儿了

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It can also happen in other ways, it could be a G-protein coupled receptor which we talked about last time, which indirectly activates another ion channel to start the electrical signal.

还可以有其他方式,可以通过G蛋白偶联受体,这我们上次谈过,它可以间接激活,另一个离子通道以开启电信号

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