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Fenestropathy of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels [PDF]

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) are responsible for the initiation and propagation of action potentials in excitable cells. From pain to heartbeat, these integral membrane proteins are the ignition stations for every sensation and action in human ...
Tamer M. Gamal El-Din, Michael J. Lenaeus, Michael J. Lenaeus   +2 more
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Excitability constraints on voltage-gated sodium channels. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2007
We study how functional constraints bound and shape evolution through an analysis of mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels. The primary function of sodium channels is to allow the propagation of action potentials. Since Hodgkin and Huxley, mathematical
Elaine Angelino, Michael P Brenner
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Cannabidiol interactions with voltage-gated sodium channels [PDF]

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, Altin Sula, Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo, David Hollingworth, Peter C Ruben, BA Wallace   +5 more
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Structural Advances in Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels are responsible for the rapid rising-phase of action potentials in excitable cells. Over 1,000 mutations in NaV channels are associated with human diseases including epilepsy, periodic paralysis, arrhythmias and pain ...
Daohua Jiang, Daohua Jiang, Jiangtao Zhang, Jiangtao Zhang, Zhanyi Xia, Zhanyi Xia   +5 more
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Voltage-gated sodium channels in cancers

Biomarker Research
Voltage-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 ...
Hengrui Liu, Jieling Weng, Christopher L.-H. Huang, Antony P. Jackson   +3 more
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Voltage-gated sodium channels: biophysics, pharmacology, and related channelopathies

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2012
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) are multi-molecular protein complexes expressed in both excitable and non-excitable cells. They are primarily formed by a pore-forming multi-spanning integral membrane glycoprotein (α-subunit) that can be associated ...
Eleonora eSavio Galimberti, Michael eGollob, Dawood eDarbar   +2 more
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The Segregated Expression of Voltage-Gated Potassium and Sodium Channels in Neuronal Membranes: Functional Implications and Regulatory Mechanisms

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2017
Neurons are highly polarized cells with apparent functional and morphological differences between dendrites and axon. A critical determinant for the molecular and functional identity of axonal and dendritic segments is the restricted expression of ...
Jeffrey Lopez-Rojas, Maël Duménieu, Marie Oulé, Michael R. Kreutz, Michael R. Kreutz   +4 more
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Druggability of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels—Exploring Old and New Drug Receptor Sites

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Voltage-gated ion channels are important drug targets because they play crucial physiological roles in both excitable and non-excitable cells. About 15% of clinical drugs used for treating human diseases target ion channels.
Goragot Wisedchaisri, Tamer M. Gamal El-Din   +1 more
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Unmasking of Brugada syndrome by lamotrigine in a patient with pre-existing epilepsy: A case report with review of the literature

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Brugada syndrome is an inherited cardiac channelopathy arising from mutations in voltage-gated cardiac sodium channels. Idiopathic epilepsy portrays a coalescent underlying pathophysiological mechanism pertaining to the premature excitation of neuronal ...
Hafiz Omer, Hafiz Omer, Mohamed H. Omer, Abdulmohsen R. Alyousef, Ali M. Alzammam, Omar Ahmad, Haitham A. Alanazi, Haitham A. Alanazi, Haitham A. Alanazi   +8 more
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Historical Perspective of the Characterization of Conotoxins Targeting Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Marine Drugs, 2023
Marine toxins have potent actions on diverse sodium ion channels regulated by transmembrane voltage (voltage-gated ion channels) or by neurotransmitters (nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channels).
James R. Groome
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