Scientists at Hyogo College of Medicine Detail Research in Neuroscience

2012 MAY 8 -- Research findings, "Comparative study of voltage-gated sodium channel a-subunits in non-overlapping four neuronal populations in the rat dorsal root ganglion," are discussed in a new report. According to the authors of a study from Nishinomiya, Japan, "Voltage-gated sodium channel a-subunit (Nav) is the major determinant of neuronal electrophysiological characters. In order to compare the composition of Navs among neurochemically different neurons in the rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG), we examined the expression of Nav transcripts in four non-overlapping neuronal populations, with (+) or without (-) N52 immunoreactivity, a marker of neurons with myelinated axons,...

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