Hyperexcitability reduced low threshold potassium currents auditory neurons of mice lacking the channel subunit Kv1.1

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 548, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Brew, Helen M ^a   Hallows, Janice L ^a   Tempel, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.1; POTASSIUM ION; TETRAMER; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEDIAL NUCLEUS OF THE TRAPEZOID BODY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAPEZOID BODY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; RECORDING; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DNA; ELAPID VENOMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KV1.1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; QA-SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 0037383828     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.035568     Document Type: Review

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