Mice Lacking Sodium Channel β1 Subunits Display Defects in Neuronal Excitability, Sodium Channel Expression, and Nodal Architecture

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4030-4042

  Chen, Chunling ^a   Westenbroek, Ruth E ^c   Xu, Xiaorong ^d   Edwards, Chris A ^b   Sorenson, Dorothy R ^b   Chen, Yuan ^c   McEwen, Dyke P ^a   O'Malley, Heather A ^a   Bharucha, Vandana ^a   Meadows, Laurence S ^a   Knudsen, Gabriel A ^a   Vilaythong, Alex ^e   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^e   Saunders, Thomas L ^b   Scheuer, Todd ^c   Shrager, Peter ^d   Catterall, William A ^c   Isom, Lori L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

; Adhesion; Channel; Epilepsy; Node; Sodium

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DNA; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CELL INTERACTION; EMBRYO; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NERVE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SEIZURE; STEM CELL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATAXIA; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DWARFISM; EPILEPSY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANVIER'S NODES; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; STEM CELLS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 11144354817     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4139-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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