Voltage-gated sodium channels and metastatic disease

WJ Brackenbury - Channels, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Voltage-gated Na+ channels (VGSCs) are macromolecular protein complexes containing a
pore-forming α subunit and smaller non-pore-forming β subunits. VGSCs are expressed in …

Electrophysiology and beyond: multiple roles of Na+ channel β subunits in development and disease

GA Patino, LL Isom - Neuroscience letters, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Voltage-gated Na+ channel (VGSC) β Subunits are not “auxiliary.” These multi-functional
molecules not only modulate Na+ current (INa), but also function as cell adhesion molecules …

Robust central reduction of amyloid-β in humans with an orally available, non-peptidic β-secretase inhibitor

PC May, RA Dean, SL Lowe, F Martenyi… - Journal of …, 2011‏ - jneurosci.org
According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, cerebral deposition of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ)
is critical for Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Aβ generation is initiated when β …

Therapeutic potential for phenytoin: targeting Nav1.5 sodium channels to reduce migration and invasion in metastatic breast cancer

M Yang, DJ Kozminski, LA Wold, R Modak… - Breast cancer research …, 2012‏ - Springer
Abstract Voltage-gated Na+ channels (VGSCs) are heteromeric membrane protein
complexes containing pore-forming α subunits and smaller, non-pore-forming β subunits …

A functional null mutation of SCN1B in a patient with Dravet syndrome

GA Patino, LRF Claes, LF Lopez-Santiago… - Journal of …, 2009‏ - jneurosci.org
Dravet syndrome (also called severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy) is one of the most
severe forms of childhood epilepsy. Most patients have heterozygous mutations in SCN1A …

Transmembrane voltage potential is an essential cellular parameter for the detection and control of tumor development in a Xenopus model

BT Chernet, M Levin - Disease models & mechanisms, 2013‏ - journals.biologists.com
Understanding mechanisms that orchestrate cell behavior into appropriately patterned
tissues and organs within the organism is an essential element of preventing, detecting and …

Dravet syndrome as part of the clinical and genetic spectrum of sodium channel epilepsies and encephalopathies

D Mei, V Cetica, C Marini, R Guerrini - Epilepsia, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dravet syndrome is the most studied form of genetic epilepsy. It has now been clarified that
the clinical spectrum of the syndrome does not have firmly established boundaries. The core …

Voltage gated sodium channels as therapeutic targets for chronic pain

RSY Ma, K Kayani, D Whyte-Oshodi… - Journal of pain …, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Being maladaptive and frequently unresponsive to pharmacotherapy, chronic pain presents
a major unmet clinical need. While an intact central nervous system is required for conscious …

[کتاب][B] The role of non-pore-forming β subunits in physiology and pathophysiology of voltage-gated sodium channels

JD Calhoun, LL Isom - 2014‏ - Springer
Voltage-gated sodium channel β1 and β2 subunits were discovered as auxiliary proteins
that co-purify with pore-forming α subunits in brain. The other family members, β1B, β3, and …

Voltage-gated sodium channels: biophysics, pharmacology, and related channelopathies

E Savio-Galimberti, MH Gollob, D Darbar - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2012‏ - frontiersin.org
Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) are multi-molecular protein complexes expressed
in both excitable and non-excitable cells. They are primarily formed by a pore-forming multi …