As the conductance of a solution increases, its ability to conduct an electric current increases.
They showed that S. typhi uses the healthy version of this protein (known as cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, or CFTR) as an entry point into the gut cells that it infects.
Conductance changes can be measured.
Siemens (S), unit of electrical conductance.
The reciprocal of the impedance, 1/Z, is called the admittance and is expressed in terms of the unit of conductance, the mho unit (ohm spelled backward).
In 1988 Haldane extended work that had been done on the quantum Hall effect by Thouless, who had explained why the electrical conductance in that effect changed in integer steps.
Although GABA causes an increased Cl− conductance at these terminals, the result is depolarization, not hyperpolarization, of the membrane.
There are two corresponding types of calcium channels: a large conductance channel that gives rise to a long-lasting current at positive membrane potentials and a low conductance channel that gives rise to a transient current at more negative potentials.
Single-channel recordings of cultured tissue have shown selective Cl− channels that are voltage dependent and of high conductance.
He found that the conductance followed a kind of integer known from topology as the Chern number.
In fact, the inverse of the electrical resistance, called the conductance, varies in integer steps.
