Selective alteration of sodium channel gating by Australian funnel-web spider toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 1996, Pages 1443-1453

  Nicholson, Graham M ^a   Little, Michelle J ^a   Tyler, Margaret ^b   Narahashi, Toshio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATRACHOTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; SPIDER VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CHANNEL GATING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ION CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL GANGLION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 0030292981     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00089-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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