Potassium channels: molecular defects, diseases, and therapeutic opportunities

CC Shieh, M Coghlan, JP Sullivan… - Pharmacological …, 2000‏ - Elsevier
Potassium channels play important roles in vital cellular signaling processes in both
excitable and nonexcitable cells. Over 50 human genes encoding various K+ channels have …

Molecular psychology: roles for the ERK MAP kinase cascade in memory

JP Adams, JD Sweatt - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2002‏ - annualreviews.org
In this review we describe an emerging understanding of the roles of the Extracellular-signal
regulated kinase/mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK/MAPK) cascade in learning and …

[HTML][HTML] K+ channel regulation of signal propagation in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons

DA Hoffman, JC Magee, CM Colbert, D Johnston - Nature, 1997‏ - nature.com
Pyramidal neurons receive tens of thousands of synaptic inputs on their dendrites. The
dendrites dynamically alter the strengths of these synapses and coordinate them to produce …

Modulation of A-type potassium channels by a family of calcium sensors

WF An, MR Bowlby, M Betty, J Cao, HP Ling… - Nature, 2000‏ - nature.com
In the brain and heart, rapidly inactivating (A-type) voltage-gated potassium (Kv) currents
operate at subthreshold membrane potentials to control the excitability of neurons and …

Structure and function of Kv4-family transient potassium channels

SG Birnbaum, AW Varga, LL Yuan… - Physiological …, 2004‏ - journals.physiology.org
Shal-type (Kv4. x) K+ channels are expressed in a variety of tissue, with particularly high
levels in the brain and heart. These channels are the primary subunits that contribute to …

The CD26-related dipeptidyl aminopeptidase-like protein DPPX is a critical component of neuronal A-type K+ channels

MS Nadal, A Ozaita, Y Amarillo, EVS de Miera, Y Ma… - Neuron, 2003‏ - cell.com
Subthreshold-activating somatodendritic A-type potassium channels have fundamental roles
in neuronal signaling and plasticity which depend on their unique cellular localization …

Differential Expression of Kv4 K+ Channel Subunits Mediating Subthreshold Transient K+ (A-Type) Currents in Rat Brain

P Serôdio, B Rudy - Journal of neurophysiology, 1998‏ - journals.physiology.org
Serôdio, Paulo and Bernardo Rudy. Differential expression of Kv4 K+ channel subunits
mediating subthreshold transient K+ (A-type) currents in rat brain. J. Neurophysiol. 79: 1081 …

Role of the Kv4.3 K+ Channel in Ventricular Muscle: A Molecular Correlate for the Transient Outward Current

JE Dixon, W Shi, HS Wang, C McDonald, H Yu… - Circulation …, 1996‏ - ahajournals.org
The expression of 15 different K+ channels in canine heart was examined, and a new K+
channel gene (Kv4. 3), which encodes a rapidly inactivating K+ current, is described. The …

Downregulation of transient K+ channels in dendrites of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons by activation of PKA and PKC

DA Hoffman, D Johnston - Journal of Neuroscience, 1998‏ - jneurosci.org
We have reported recently a high density of transient A-type K+ channels located in the
distal dendrites of CA1 hippocampal pyramidal neurons and shown that these channels …

Contributions of Kv3 channels to neuronal excitability

B Rudy, A Chow, D Lau, Y Amarillo… - Annals of the New …, 1999‏ - Wiley Online Library
Four mammalian Kv3 genes have been identified, each of which generates, by alternative
splicing, multiple protein products differing in their C‐terminal sequence. Products of the …