Individual variation and hormonal modulation of a sodium channel β subunit in the electric organ correlate with variation in a social signal

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1289-1304

  Liu, He ^a   Wu, Ming Ming ^a   Zakon, Harold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

1 subunit; Electric organ; Sodium current

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNIT; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; EXCITABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SODIUM CURRENT; STEADY STATE; STERNOPYGUS MACRURUS; XENOPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

EID: 34547819729     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20404     Document Type: Article

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