Inhibition of Na currents by the toxin extracts from puffer fishes captured in the sea coast of Japan

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 999-1006

  Iwata, Satomi ^a   Matsuura, Tatsuya ^a   Yamamoto, Sokatsu ^a   Tahara, Tatsuo ^b   Shin, Min Chul ^a   Ito, Yushi ^a   Akaike, Norio ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO HEALTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japanese Restaurant Tahara   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hippocampal CA1 neuron; Puffer fishes; Sodium current; Tetrodotoxin; Toxin extract

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IC 50; JAPAN; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; JAPAN; LIVER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TETRODOTOXIN; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

AROTHRON RETICULARIS; CANTHIGASTER RIVULATA; LAGOCEPHALUS WHEELERI; RATTUS; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TAKIFUGU VERMICULARIS; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 77956063217     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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