Mammalian skeletal muscle voltage-gated sodium channels are affected by scorpion depressant "insect-selective" toxins when preconditioned

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1220-1227

  Cohen, Lior ^a   Troub, Yael ^a   Turkov, Michael ^a   Gilles, Nicolas ^b   Ilan, Nitza ^a   Benveniste, Morris ^a,c   Gordon, Dalia ^a   Gurevitz, Michael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DIF   (France)

^c MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SCORPION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 35548937483     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.107.039057     Document Type: Article

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