Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2011 Chronic and neuropathic pain constitute significant health problems affecting millions of individuals each year. Pain sensations typically originate in sensory neurons of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) which relay information to the central nervous
Jonathan W. Theile, Theodore R Cummins
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Ion channel clustering at the axon initial segment and node of Ranvier evolved sequentially in early chordates. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2008 In many mammalian neurons, dense clusters of ion channels at the axonal initial segment and nodes of Ranvier underlie action potential generation and rapid conduction.
Alexis S Hill +7 more
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Glutathione accelerates sodium channel inactivation in excised rat axonal membrane patches [PDF]
, 1992 The effects of glutathione were studied on the gating behaviour of sodium channels in membrane patches of rat axons. Depolarizing pulses from –120 to –40 mV elicited sodium currents of up to 500 pA, indicating the simultaneous activation of up to 250 ...
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Cannabidiol interactions with voltage-gated sodium channels
eLife, 2020 Voltage-gated sodium channels are targets for a range of pharmaceutical drugs developed for the treatment of neurological diseases. Cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive compound isolated from cannabis plants, was recently approved for treatment of two
Lily Goodyer Sait +5 more
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Electrocardiographic Biomarkers for Detection of Drug-Induced Late Sodium Current Block. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Drugs that prolong the heart rate corrected QT interval (QTc) on the electrocardiogram (ECG) by blocking the hERG potassium channel and also block inward currents (late sodium or L-type calcium) are not associated with torsade de pointes (e.g. ranolazine
Jose Vicente +6 more
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Sodium Current Measurements in HEK293 Cells
Bio-Protocol, 2013 This protocol is used to measure sodium currents from heterologously transfected cells lines, such as HEK293 cells. Standard whole cell patch clamp technique is used to assess ion channel function. This protocol has been used to study cardiac type Nav1.5
Helena Riuró +5 more
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Energetics of discrete selectivity bands and mutation-induced transitions in the calcium-sodium ion channels family [PDF]
, 2013 We use Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations to study the ionic conduction and valence selectivity of a generic electrostatic model of a biological ion channel as functions of the fixed charge Qf at its selectivity filter.
Eisenberg, Robert S. +4 more
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PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 State-dependent sodium channel blockers are often prescribed to treat cardiac arrhythmias, but many sodium channel blockers are known to have pro-arrhythmic side effects.
Steffen S Docken +2 more
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Modeled channel distributions explain extracellular recordings from cultured neurons sealed to microelectrodes [PDF]
, 2002 Amplitudes and shapes of extracellular recordings from single neurons cultured on a substrate embedded microelectrode depend not only on the volume conducting properties of the neuron-electrode interface, but might also depend on the distribution of ...
Buitenweg, Jan Reinoud +2 more
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SUMOylation of NaV1.2 channels mediates the early response to acute hypoxia in central neurons. [PDF]
, 2016 The mechanism for the earliest response of central neurons to hypoxia-an increase in voltage-gated sodium current (INa)-has been unknown. Here, we show that hypoxia activates the Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier (SUMO) pathway in rat cerebellar granule ...
Goldstein, Steve An +2 more
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