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Native American ataxia medicines rescue ataxia-linked mutant potassium channel activity via binding to the voltage sensing domain.
Nature communications - 6 Jun 2023
Manville Rían W, Alfredo Freites J, Sidlow Richard, Tobias Douglas J, Abbott Geoffrey W
Abstract excerpt
There are currently no drugs known to rescue the function of Kv1.1 voltage-gated potassium channels carrying loss-of-function sequence variants underlying the inherited movement disorder, Episodic Ataxia 1 (EA1). The Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast used Fucus gardneri (bladderwrack kelp), Physocarpus capitatus (Pacific ninebark) and Urtica dioica (common nettle) to treat locomotor...
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