Sustained increase in the excitability of myelinated peripheral axons to depolarizing current is mediated by Nav1.6

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 492, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-133

  Sittl, Ruth ^a   Carr, Richard W ^a   Grafe, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Neurography; Persistent sodium current; Scn8a; Threshold tracking; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SODIUM CHANNELS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79952452625     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.01.069     Document Type: Article

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