Neurotoxins and their binding areas on voltage-gated sodium channels

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 2 NOV, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Stevens, Marijke ^a   Peigneur, Steve ^a   Tytgat, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binding site; Neurotoxin; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; ANKYRIN; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CONOTOXIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DELTA CONOTOXIN; GUANIDINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEUROTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; POLYETHER; PROTEIN KINASE C; PYRETHROID; SAXITOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; SODIUM ION; SPIDER VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CHRONIC PAIN; HYDROPHILICITY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 84864851318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2011.00071     Document Type: Article

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