Molecular determinants of two neurotoxins that regulate sodium current inactivation in rat hippocampal neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 44-46

  Kawai, Nobufumi ^a   Konno, Katsuhiro ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anemone toxin; Inactivation; Neurotoxin; Pompilidotoxin; Sea anemone toxin; Sodium channel; Wasp toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; POMPILIDOTOXIN; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOBSTER; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SODIUM CURRENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSECT PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NEPHROPIDAE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WASP VENOMS;

EID: 2342632529     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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