Emerging roles for G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels in health and disease

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 301-315

  Lüscher, Christian ^a,b,c   Slesinger, Paul A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Switzerland)

^c Geneva Research Center   (Switzerland)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANALGESIA; BRAIN REGION; CELL DEATH; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EPILEPSY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951498231     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2834     Document Type: Review

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