A new class of neurotoxin from wasp venom slows inactivation of sodium current

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1961-1970

  Sahara, Yoshinori ^e   Gotoh, Masamichi ^a,e   Konno, Katsuhiro ^a,e   Miwa, Akiko ^b,e   Tsubokawa, Hiroshi ^c,e   Robinson, Hugh P C ^d,e   Kawai, Nobufumi ^c,e  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Tokyo Metropol Inst for N   (Japan)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inactivation; Lobster neuromuscular synapse; Sodium channel; Trigeminal ganglion; Wasp toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NEUROTOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; WASP VENOM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEG MUSCLE; LOBSTER; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSECT PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; NEPHROPIDAE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TETRODOTOXIN; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; WASP VENOMS;

EID: 0342998482     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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