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SUBMITTER: Osteen JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919188 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Osteen Jeremiah D JD Herzig Volker V Gilchrist John J Emrick Joshua J JJ Zhang Chuchu C Wang Xidao X Castro Joel J Garcia-Caraballo Sonia S Grundy Luke L Rychkov Grigori Y GY Weyer Andy D AD Dekan Zoltan Z Undheim Eivind A B EA Alewood Paul P Stucky Cheryl L CL Brierley Stuart M SM Basbaum Allan I AI Bosmans Frank F King Glenn F GF Julius David D
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Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels initiate action potentials in most neurons, including primary afferent nerve fibres of the pain pathway. Local anaesthetics block pain through non-specific actions at all Nav channels, but the discovery of selective modulators would facilitate the analysis of individual subtypes of these channels and their contributions to chemical, mechanical, or thermal pain. Here we identify and characterize spider (Heteroscodra maculata) toxins that selectively activate th ...[more]