Functional analysis of a voltage-gated sodium channel and its splice variant from rat dorsal root ganglia

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2262-2272

  Dietrich, Paul S ^a   McGivern, Joseph G ^a   Delgado, Stephen G ^a   Koch, Bruce D ^a   Eglen, Richard M ^a   Hunter, John C ^a   Sangameswaran, Lakshmi ^a,b  

^a ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

^b Center for Biological Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; Tetrodotoxin sensitivity; Voltage gated sodium channel; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031746483     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1998.70062262.x     Document Type: Article

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