Maurotoxin: A potent inhibitor of intermediate conductance Ca2+-activated potassium channels

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 409-418

  Castle, N A ^a   London, D O ^a   Creech, C ^a   Fajloun, Z ^b   Stocker, J W ^a   Sabatier, J M ^b  

^a Icagen Inc   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APAMIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; IODINE 125; MAUROTOXIN; RUBIDIUM 86; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHIBITION KINETICS; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APAMIN; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; SCORPION VENOMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0037308774     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.63.2.409     Document Type: Article

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