The endogenous pentapeptide QYNAD induces acute conduction block in the isolated rat sciatic nerve

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 317, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-36

  Weber, Frank ^a,b   Rüdel, Reinhardt ^b   Aulkemeyer, Peter ^b   Brinkmeier, Heinrich ^b  

^a German Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conduction block; Demyelinating disorders; Guillain Barr syndrome; Multiple sclerosis; Na+ channel; Peptide blocker; Rat sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINYLTRYOSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLASPARTIC ACID; PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; LIDOCAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SCIATIC NERVE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0037016517     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02420-X     Document Type: Article

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