Action potential broadening in a presynaptic channelopathy

Episodic ataxia type 1 is caused by mutations in the potassium channel Kv1.1, which is found in cerebellar basket cells. Here, the authors use electrophysiology techniques to characterize these mutant channels, and observe that the changes result in decreased spontaneous Purkinje cell firing with no...

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Main Authors: Rahima Begum, Yamina Bakiri, Kirill E. Volynski, Dimitri M. Kullmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12102