Voltage-gated Na+ channels: Potential for β subunits as therapeutic targets

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1191-1203

  Brackenbury, William J ^a   Isom, Lori L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

subunit; Cancer; Cell adhesion; Development; Epilepsy; Migration; Voltage gated Na+ channel

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNIT;

BRUGADA SYNDROME; CANCER CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; DRUG TARGETING; EPILEPSY; EXCITABILITY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; GENE MUTATION; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CURRENT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 51549096558     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.12.9.1191     Document Type: Review

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