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Gabapentin decreases membrane calcium currents in injured as well as in control mammalian primary afferent neurons.
Regional anesthesia and pain medicine Jan-Feb, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11799505
Differential modulation of the cardiac adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel by isoflurane and halothane.
Anesthesiology Jul, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12131103
Isoflurane-induced facilitation of the cardiac sarcolemmal K(ATP) channel.
Anesthesiology Jul, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12131104
Protein tyrosine kinase-dependent modulation of isoflurane effects on cardiac sarcolemmal K(ATP) channel.
Anesthesiology Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12411806
Biphasic effects of isoflurane on the cardiac action potential: an ionic basis for anesthetic-induced changes in cardiac electrophysiology.
Anesthesiology Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12411807
Isoflurane sensitizes the cardiac sarcolemmal adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel to pinacidil.
Anesthesiology Jan, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12502987
Loss of T-type calcium current in sensory neurons of rats with neuropathic pain.
Anesthesiology Jan, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12502999
Isoflurane activates rat mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ channels reconstituted in lipid bilayers.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12573994
The effects of isoflurane on the cardiac slowly activating delayed-rectifier potassium channel in Guinea pig ventricular myocytes.
Anesthesia and analgesia May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12707124
ATP-sensitive potassium channels in rat primary afferent neurons: the effect of neuropathic injury and gabapentin.
Neuroscience letters Jun, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12770693
Contribution of reactive oxygen species to isoflurane-induced sensitization of cardiac sarcolemmal adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel to pinacidil.
Anesthesiology Mar, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15108971
Protein kinase C-epsilon primes the cardiac sarcolemmal adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channel to modulation by isoflurane.
Anesthesiology Aug, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15277921
Preconditioning of the myocardium by volatile anesthetics.
Current medicinal chemistry. Cardiovascular and hematological agents Jul, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15320790
Beta-escin diminishes voltage-gated calcium current rundown in perforated patch-clamp recordings from rat primary afferent neurons.
Journal of neuroscience methods Oct, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15351522
The interaction of isoflurane and protein kinase C-activators on sarcolemmal KATP channels.
Anesthesia and analgesia Jun, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15920195
Characterization of human cardiac mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel and its regulation by phorbol ester in vitro.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology May, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16361367
Painful peripheral nerve injury decreases calcium current in axotomized sensory neurons.
Anesthesiology Jul, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16810008
Opposing effects of spinal nerve ligation on calcium-activated potassium currents in axotomized and adjacent mammalian primary afferent neurons.
Brain research Feb, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17184741
Isoflurane activates human cardiac mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate-sensitive K+ channels reconstituted in lipid bilayers.
Anesthesia and analgesia Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17898367
The A3 adenosine receptor agonist CP-532,903 [N6-(2,5-dichlorobenzyl)-3'-aminoadenosine-5'-N-methylcarboxamide] protects against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury via the sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive potassium channel.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics Jan, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 17906066
Nitric oxide activates ATP-sensitive potassium channels in mammalian sensory neurons: action by direct S-nitrosylation.
Molecular pain , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19284878
Protective actions of epoxyeicosatrienoic acid: dual targeting of cardiovascular PI3K and KATP channels.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19336274
Suppressed Ca2+/CaM/CaMKII-dependent K(ATP) channel activity in primary afferent neurons mediates hyperalgesia after axotomy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19439665
Mitochondrial matrix K+ flux independent of large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel opening.
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20053924
Biphasic effect of nitric oxide on the cardiac voltage-dependent anion channel.
FEBS letters Jan, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21156174
Survival of neurally induced mesenchymal cells may determine degree of motor recovery in injured spinal cord rats.
Restorative neurology and neuroscience , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21209491
Store-operated Ca2+ entry in sensory neurons: functional role and the effect of painful nerve injury.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21389210
Partial restoration of the long QT syndrome associated KCNQ1 A341V mutant by the KCNE1 β-subunit.
Biochimica et biophysica acta Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21854832
Tyrosine nitration of voltage-dependent anion channels in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion: reduction by peroxynitrite scavenging.
Biochimica et biophysica acta Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22709907
Ca²⁺-dependent regulation of Ca²⁺ currents in rat primary afferent neurons: role of CaMKII and the effect of injury.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22915116
Protection against cardiac injury by small Ca(2+)-sensitive K(+) channels identified in guinea pig cardiac inner mitochondrial membrane.
Biochimica et biophysica acta Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22982251
Sigma-1 receptor antagonism restores injury-induced decrease of voltage-gated Ca2+ current in sensory neurons.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24891452
Regulation of voltage-gated Ca(2+) currents by Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in resting sensory neurons.
Molecular and cellular neurosciences Sep, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25064143
Subarna Bhattacharya*,1,
Paul W. Burridge*,2,
Erin M. Kropp1,
Sandra L. Chuppa1,
Wai-Meng Kwok3,
Joseph C. Wu2,
Kenneth R. Boheler4,5,
Rebekah L. Gundry1,6
1Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin,
2Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine,
3Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin,
4Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Consortium, LKS Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University,
5Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
6Cardiovascular Research Center, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin