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Behavior of ion channels controlled by electric potential difference and of Toll-type receptors in neuropathic pain pathophysiology

Revista Dor
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Neuropathic pain is a severe and refractory medical condition, for which only partially effective treatments are currently available.
André Prato Schmidt, Sérgio Renato Guimarães Schmidt   +1 more
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Drug binding sites on Nat1.8 sodium channels [PDF]

, 2008
The voltage-gated sodium channel, Nav 1.8, is known to play an important role in pain signalling. In this thesis, the functional properties and drug binding sites of wild type and mutant Nav 1.8 sodium channel currents were studied in mammalian sensory ...
Browne, Liam Edward
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Inhibition by Pregnenolone Sulphate, a Metabolite of the Neurosteroid Pregnenolone, of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2012
Neurosteroids are known as allosteric modulators of the ligand-gated ion channel superfamily. Voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) play an important role in mediating excitotoxic damages. Here we report the effects of neurosteroids on the function of Nav,
Takafumi Horishita, Susumu Ueno, Nobuyuki Yanagihara, Yuka Sudo, Yasuhito Uezono, Dan Okura, Takeyoshi Sata   +6 more
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Effect of Crude Extract from the Sea Anemone Bunodeopsis globulifera on Voltage-Gated Ion Channels from Central and Peripheral Murine Nervous Systems

Pharmaceuticals
Sea anemones are an important source of bioactive compounds with potential pharmacological applications. Their toxins are produced and stored in organelles called nematocysts and act on specific targets, including voltage-gated ion channels. To date, sea
Aleida Jeannette Flores-Pérez, Santiago Loya-López, Arturo Ávalos-Fuentes, Aida Calderon-Rivera, Elisa Damo, Fernando Lazcano-Pérez, Rajesh Khanna, Benjamin Florán-Garduño, Judith Sánchez-Rodríguez   +8 more
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Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Dysfunction in Epilepsy: Zebrafish Models for Therapeutics

Biomedicines
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play pivotal roles in cellular function, particularly in the regulation of electrical signaling. Structural defects in these channels cause deleterious effects in a myriad of cell types, leading to various diseases ...
Angela Gyamfi, Priyadharshini Manikandan, William A. Cisneros, Theodore R. Cummins, James A. Marrs   +4 more
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Predictive 3D modelling of the interactions of pyrethroids with the voltage-gated sodium channels of ticks and mites

, 2014
Background: The pyrethroid insecticides are a very successful group of compounds that target invertebrate voltage-gated sodium channels and are widely used in the control of insects, ticks and mites.
Field, L.M., Williamson, M.S., González-Cabrera, J., Wallace, Bonnie A., Gozalez-Cabrera, J., Wallace, B. A., Turberg, A., Emyr Davies, T.G., Field, L. M., O'Reilly, A.O., O'Reilly, A. O., Davies, T. G. E., Williamson, M. S.   +12 more
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Marine Toxins That Target Voltage-gated Sodium Channels

Marine Drugs, 2006
: Eukaryotic, voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels are large membrane proteins which underlie generation and propagation of rapid electrical signals in nerve, muscle and heart. Nine different NaV receptor sites, for natural ligands and/or drugs, have been
Robert J. French, Vitaly Ostroumov, Jeff McArthur, Ahmed Al-Sabi   +3 more
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Pumilio binds para mRNA and requires nanos and brat to regulate sodium current in drosophila motoneurons [PDF]

, 2008
Homeostatic regulation of ionic currents is of paramount importance during periods of synaptic growth or remodeling. Our previous work has identified the translational repressor Pumilio (Pum) as a regulator of sodium current (INa) and excitability in ...
Moffat, K G, Weston, Andrew J., Baines, Richard A., Gerber, Andre P., Baines, R A, Muraro, Nara I., Luschnig, Stefan, Gerber, A P, Baines, Richard A.; id_orcid, Weston, A J, Moffat, Kevin G., Muraro, N I, Luschnig, S   +12 more
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Sodium channel inactivation kinetics of rat sensory and motor nerve fibres and their modulation by glutathione [PDF]

, 1993
Na+ channel currents of rat motor and sensory nerve fibres were studied with the patch-clamp technique on enzymatically demyelinated axons. Differences between motor and sensory fibres in multi-channel inactivation kinetics and the gating of late single ...
Quasthoff, Stefan, Mitrović, N., Grafe, Peter   +2 more
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Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels as Insecticide Targets [PDF]

, 2014
Voltage-gated sodium channels are critical for the generation and propagation of action potentials. They are the primary target of several classes of insecticides, including DDT, pyrethroids and sodium channel blocker insecticides (SCBIs). DDT and pyrethroids preferably bind to open sodium channels and stabilize the open state, causing prolonged ...
Kristopher S, Silver, Yuzhe, Du, Yoshiko, Nomura, Eugenio E, Oliveira, Vincent L, Salgado, Boris S, Zhorov, Ke, Dong   +6 more
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