# ionophore

> chemical agents that increase the permeability of biological or artificial lipid membranes to specific ions; usually relatively small organic molecules that act as mobile carriers within membranes or coalesce to form ion permeable channel

**Wikidata**: [Q415168](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q415168)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionophore)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ionophore


## References

1. Medical Subject Headings
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. UMLS 2023
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)