Sodium channel Nav1.6 is expressed along nonmyelinated axons and it contributes to conduction

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 19-28

  Black, Joel A ^a,b   Renganathan, Muthukrishnan ^a,b   Waxman, Stephen G ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Conduction velocity; med mouse; Nav1.6; Nonmyelinated; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN RECEPTOR; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SODIUM CHANNELS; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0037200807     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(02)00385-6     Document Type: Article

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