Their main finding was that a nerve impulse, now known as an action potential, is caused by the movement in opposite directions across the axon's surfacemembrane of sodium and potassium ions.
The UCL team discovered that MIP-1a plays a key role in the early stages of an allergic response within the clear membrane that coats the inner surface of the eyelid and outer surface of the eye, known as the conjunctiva.
The researchers in this study examined the geometric structure and behaviour of one of the rotavirus's surface proteins, called VP4, which plays a key role in binding on to the surface of a target cell, and breaking through its membrane.