Ethanol opens G-protein-activated inwardly rectifying K+ channels

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1091-1097

  Kobayashi, Toru ^a,b   Ikeda, Kazutaka ^c   Kojima, Hiroshi ^d   Niki, Hiroaki ^c   Yano, Ryoji ^c   Yoshioka, Tohru ^d   Kumanishi, Toshiro ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; XENOPUS;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ETHANOL; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOCARDIUM; OOCYTES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033490103     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16019     Document Type: Article

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