Sodium currents in subthalamic nucleus neurons from Nav1.6-null mice

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 726-733

  Do, Michael Tri H ^a   Bean, Bruce P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PURKINJE CELLS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142695482     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00186.2004     Document Type: Article

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