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Mechanistic link between lidocaine block and inactivation probed by outer pore mutations in the rat micro1 skeletal muscle sodium channel.
The Journal of physiology - 1 Nov 1998
Kambouris N G, Hastings L A, Stepanovic S, Marban E, Tomaselli G F, Balser J R
Abstract excerpt
1. Mutations that disrupt Na+ channel fast inactivation attenuate lidocaine (lignocaine)-induced use dependence; however, the pharmacological role of slower inactivation processes remains unclear. In Xenopus oocytes, tryptophan substitution in the outer pore of the rat skeletal muscle channel (micro1-W402) alters partitioning among fast- and slow-inactivated states. We therefore examined the effects of W402...
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