From the background to the spotlight: TASK channels in pathological conditions

Brain Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 999-1009

  Bittner, Stefan ^a   Budde, Thomas ^b   Wiendl, Heinz ^b   Meuth, Sven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

cancer; epilepsy; inflammation; ischemia; K2P channels; oncology; TASK channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; APOPTOSIS INHIBITOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TWIK RELATED ACID SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL 1; TWIK RELATED ACID SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL 2; TWIK RELATED ACID SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASTROCYTE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE INFLAMMATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DOWN REGULATION; EFFECTOR CELL; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE; SOLID TUMOR; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, TANDEM PORE DOMAIN;

EID: 78449272991     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2010.00407.x     Document Type: Review

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