Voltage-gated sodium channel modulation by scorpion α-toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-158

  Bosmans, Frank ^a   Tytgat, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Scorpion toxin; Site 3; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SODIUM CURRENT; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SCORPION VENOMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM CHANNELS;

MAMMALIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 33846474874     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.09.023     Document Type: Article

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