Blockade of the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.3 inhibits immune responses in vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5120-5128

  Koo, Gloria C ^a   Blake, J Tom ^a   Talento, Althea ^a   Nguyen, Mai ^a   Lin, Shirley ^a   Sirotina, Anna ^a   Shah, Kashmira ^a   Mulvany, Ken ^a   Hora Jr , Don ^a   Cunningham, Paul ^a   Wunderler, Denise L ^a   McManus, Owen B ^a   Slaughter, Robert ^a   Bugianesi, Randall ^a   Felix, John ^a   Garcia, Maria ^a   Williamson, Joanne ^a   Kaczorowski, Gregory ^a   Sigal, Nolan H ^a,b   Springer, Martin S ^a   Feeney, William ^a   more..

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b PHARMACOPEIA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARGATOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; ION CHANNEL GATING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEUROTOXINS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SCORPION VENOMS; SWINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031157738     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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