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Action potential broadening in a presynaptic channelopathy.
Nature communications - 6 Jul 2016
Begum Rahima, Bakiri Yamina, Volynski Kirill E, Kullmann Dimitri M
Abstract excerpt
Brain development and interictal function are unaffected in many paroxysmal neurological channelopathies, possibly explained by homoeostatic plasticity of synaptic transmission. Episodic ataxia type 1 is caused by missense mutations of the potassium channel Kv1.1, which is abundantly expressed in the terminals of cerebellar basket cells. Presynaptic action potentials of small inhibitory terminals have not been...
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