Effects of pyrethroid molecules on rat nerves in vitro: Potential to reverse temperature-sensitive conduction block of demyelinated peripheral axons

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 487-496

  Lees, George ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axons; Conduction block; Electrophysiology; Lysolecithin; Multiple sclerosis; Myelin; Na+ channel; Patch clamp; Pyrethroids; s Bioallethrin

Indexed keywords

BIOALLETHRIN; DELTAMETHRIN; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PERMETHRIN; PYRETHROID; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; HEATING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE LESION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REPOLARIZATION; SODIUM CURRENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; HEAT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYELIN SHEATH; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NERVE; PYRETHRINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0031985412     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0701644     Document Type: Article

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