User reported issue: gated channel names, sodium vs potassium leakage rate
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
Research direction
Start with the Neuron simulation at the linked HTML5 URL and inspect how the channel labels and sodium/potassium leakage animation are represented. Done means the labels distinguish voltage-gated channels from ligand-gated channels and the animation reflects the reported difference in leakage rates.
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Description
Hello, I am a faculty member at the University of Utah. I would like to use your website for the course I teach, Biology 3320, Comparative Physiology. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/neuron/latest/neuron_en.html
I very much appreciate your effort in building such a website and sharing it with the public. However, as of now, I cannot use it because of blatant inaccuracy.First, voltage-gated channels are labeled as "sodium-gated" and "potassium-gated" channels, as if they are opened when sodium and potassium bind to the channel. If you ask any neuroscience faculty at your institution, they will tell you that voltage-gated channels are very different from ligand-gated channels, which the misnomer suggests.
Second, the animation makes it look like sodium and potassium leak at a similar rate, but this is far from accurate. Potassium leaks significantly more than sodium, and that is an important point for learning neuroscience.
Please correct these errors. Thank you.
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