
doi: 10.1242/jeb.01028
![Figure][1] Most physiologists would not have too much difficulty describing the difference between a channel and a transporter. A channel is a hydrophilic pore through a membrane, which can let through many thousands of ions each time it opens. It can be selective for particular ions, but
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