Neuronal KCNQ potassium channels: Physislogy and role in disease

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-30

  Jentsch, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; KCNQ2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KCNQ3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ3; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN STEM; GENETICS; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DEAFNESS; EPILEPSY, BENIGN NEONATAL; HAIR CELLS; HEARING; HUMANS; KCNQ2 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNQ3 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LONG QT SYNDROME; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 0034303612     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35036198     Document Type: Article

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