Excitability constraints on voltage-gated sodium channels

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1751-1760

  Angelino, Elaine ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENES; MAMMALS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SODIUM;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; CHANNEL PROPERTY; FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; GENES ENCODING; MAMMALIAN GENES; PRIMARY FUNCTIONS; PROPERTY; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SHAPE EVOLUTION; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; EXCITABILITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILD TYPE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34848873138     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030177     Document Type: Article

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