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Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels: A Therapeutic Target in Ischemic Heart Disease

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
Myocardial infarction (MI)-related arrhythmias are an essential risk factor in sudden cardiac death. Aberrant cardiac the cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav1.5) is important in the development of ventricular arrhythmias after an MI.
Xiao-Lu Zhang, Tian-Peng Wei, Fan Yang, Huan-Huan Liu, Ling-Ling Qian, Ru-Xing Wang   +5 more
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KCNE1 and KCNE2 provide a checkpoint governing voltage-gated potassium channel α-subunit composition [PDF]

, 2011
Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) currents generated by N-type α-subunit homotetramers inactivate rapidly because an N-terminal ball domain blocks the channel pore after activation.
Abbott, G., Xu, Xianghua, Geoffrey W. Abbott, Kanda, Vikram A, Abbott, Geoffrey W, Anthony Lewis, Vikram A. Kanda, Xianghua Xu, Lewis, Anthony, Kanda, Vikram A., Xianghua, X., Kanda, V., Abbott, Geoffrey W.   +12 more
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Functional correlates of clinical phenotype and severity in recurrent SCN2A variants

Communications Biology, 2022
A comprehensive biophysical analysis of disease-associated mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene, SCN2A, suggests that dynamic action potential clamp may be a better predictor than voltage clamp of how these mutations alter neuronal ...
Géza Berecki, Katherine B. Howell, Jacqueline Heighway, Nelson Olivier, Jill Rodda, Isabella Overmars, Danique R. M. Vlaskamp, Tyson L. Ware, Simone Ardern-Holmes, Gaetan Lesca, Michael Alber, Pierangelo Veggiotti, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Samuel F. Berkovic, Markus Wolff, Steven Petrou   +15 more
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Voltage-gated sodium channels in cancers

Biomarker Research
AbstractVoltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) initiate action potentials in electrically excitable cells and tissues. Surprisingly, some VGSC genes are aberrantly expressed in a variety of cancers, derived from “non-excitable” tissues that do not generate classic action potentials, showing potential as a promising pharmacological target for cancer ...
Hengrui Liu, Jieling Weng, Christopher L.-H. Huang, Antony P. Jackson   +3 more
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Voltage-gated sodium channels dysfunction in depression: the hypothesis

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2016
Voltage-gated sodium (Na+) channels (VGSCs) are responsible for action potential initiation and propagation in most electrically excitable cells which are implicated in a wide range physiological functions including neuronal signalling, muscle ...
Osman Ozdemir
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Mechanosensitive pore opening of a prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel

eLife, 2023
Voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs) orchestrate electrical activities that drive mechanical functions in contractile tissues such as the heart and gut. In turn, contractions change membrane tension and impact ion channels.
Peter R Strege, Luke M Cowan, Constanza Alcaino, Amelia Mazzone, Christopher A Ahern, Lorin S Milescu, Gianrico Farrugia, Arthur Beyder   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The actions of chloride channel blockers, barbiturates and a benzodiazepine on Caenorhabditis elegans glutamate- and ivermectin-gated chloride channel subunits expressed in Xenopus oocytes [PDF]

, 2009
The pharmacology of Caenorhabditis elegans glutamate-gated chloride (GluCl) channels was determined by making intracellular voltage-clamp recordings from Xenopus oocytes expressing GluCl subunits. As previously reported (Cully et al.
Bush, Elizabeth, Holden-Dye, Lindy, Foreman, Richard, Walker, Robert J.   +3 more
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Paclitaxel induces NM2‐dependent cellular contraction through GEF‐H1 dissociation from microtubules and RhoA/ROCK activation in cancer cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Taxanes are widely used chemotherapeutics whose effects on cellular mechanics remain poorly understood. We show that paclitaxel induces rapid cellular contraction by promoting GEF‐H1 dissociation from microtubules and non‐muscle myosin II activation through RhoA/ROCK.
Gloria Asensio‐Juárez, Rafael Pérez‐Díaz, Hugo Ramos‐Solano, Marina Garrido‐Casado, Vanessa C. Talayero, Miguel Vicente‐Manzanares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A numerical approach to ion channel modelling using whole-cell voltage-clamp recordings and a genetic algorithm.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2007
The activity of trans-membrane proteins such as ion channels is the essence of neuronal transmission. The currently most accurate method for determining ion channel kinetic mechanisms is single-channel recording and analysis.
Meron Gurkiewicz, Alon Korngreen
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Determining the structure of the bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel NaChBac embedded in liposomes by cryo electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

Scientific Reports, 2023
Voltage-gated sodium channels shape action potentials that propagate signals along cells. When the membrane potential reaches a certain threshold, the channels open and allow sodium ions to flow through the membrane depolarizing it, followed by the ...
Shih-Ying Scott Chang, Patricia M. Dijkman, Simon A. Wiessing, Misha Kudryashev   +3 more
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