Regulation of membrane excitability: a convergence on voltage-gated sodium conductance

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-67

  Lin, Wei Hsiang ^a   Baines, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Epilepsy; Excitability; Paralytic; Splicing; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; HOMEOSTASIS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84896588557     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-014-8674-0     Document Type: Review

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