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Shellfish Toxins Targeting Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Marine Drugs, 2013
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play a central role in the generation and propagation of action potentials in excitable neurons and other cells and are targeted by commonly used local anesthetics, antiarrhythmics, and anticonvulsants. They are also
Fan Zhang, Xunxun Xu, Tingting Li, Zhonghua Liu   +3 more
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Photocontrol of Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Activity by Azobenzene Trimethylammonium Bromide in Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The ability of azobenzene trimethylammonium bromide (azoTAB) to sensitize cardiac tissue excitability to light was recently reported. The dark, thermally relaxed trans- isomer of azoTAB suppressed spontaneous activity and excitation propagation speed ...
Sheyda R Frolova, Olga Gaiko, Valeriya A Tsvelaya, Oleg Y Pimenov, Konstantin I Agladze   +4 more
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Advances in the role of intestinal ion channels in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]

Jichu yixue yu linchuang, 2020
Ion channels are widely present in mucous membranes of the digestive tract, their abnormal expression and(or) function are important pathogenic mechanisms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
LAN Fei, LIU Tai-yang, YANG Jie
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Are voltage-gated sodium channels on the dorsal root ganglion involved in the development of neuropathic pain?

Molecular Pain, 2011
Neuropathic pain is a common clinical condition. Current treatments are often inadequate, ineffective, or produce potentially severe adverse effects. Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain will be ...
Li Yun-Qing, Gu Jianguo, Wang Wei, Tao Yuan-Xiang   +3 more
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Voltage-gated sodium channels in taste bud cells

BMC Neuroscience, 2009
Background Taste bud cells transmit information regarding the contents of food from taste receptors embedded in apical microvilli to gustatory nerve fibers innervating basolateral membranes.
Williams Mark E, Kalabat Dalia, Laita Bianca, Echeverri Fernando, Lu Min, Gao Na, Hevezi Peter, Zlotnik Albert, Moyer Bryan D   +8 more
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Ca2+ entry through NaV channels generates submillisecond axonal Ca2+ signaling

eLife, 2020
Calcium ions (Ca2+) are essential for many cellular signaling mechanisms and enter the cytosol mostly through voltage-gated calcium channels. Here, using high-speed Ca2+ imaging up to 20 kHz in the rat layer five pyramidal neuron axon we found that ...
Naomi AK Hanemaaijer, Marko A Popovic, Xante Wilders, Sara Grasman, Oriol Pavón Arocas, Maarten HP Kole   +5 more
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Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz, Christopher H. Thompson, Linda C. Laux, Alfred L. George Jr.   +3 more
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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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Receptor‐Free Identification of Toxic Gases Enabled by Hygroscopic Aqueous Salt Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Water as a gas sensor coating sounds impossible—until it stops evaporating. Here, hygroscopic salt solutions (LiCl, LiBr, H3PO4) form non‐drying aqueous films on CNT chemiresistors under ambient air. Gases partition into these liquid layers, sometimes transforming into water, and generate salt‐specific resistance fingerprints across a four‐channel ...
Seongwoo Lee, Yun‐Tae Kim, Hwarang Choi, Sanghwan Park, Seongyeop Lim, Chang Young Lee   +5 more
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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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