Slow sodium-dependent potential oscillations contribute to ectopic firing in mammalian demyelinated axons

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 647-652

  Kapoor, R ^b   Li, Y G ^a,c   Smith, K J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 aminopyridine; Paraesthesiae; Sodium channels; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPTOM;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SCIATIC NERVE; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0030987951     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.4.647     Document Type: Article

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