title: Toxins in the characterization of potassium channels.
abstract: Several recently characterized toxins (apamin, charybdotoxin, dendrotoxin and noxiustoxin) are proving invaluable for establishing what kinds of potassium channel are expressed in neurones, and what the roles of the channels might be.
authors: N A
authors: NA
authors: Castle
authors: D G
authors: DG
authors: Haylett
authors: D H
authors: DH
authors: Jenkinson
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D001030:Apamin / Q000378:metabolism*; D001514:Bee Venoms / Q000378:metabolism*; D018999:Charybdotoxin; D004546:Elapid Venoms / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015221:Potassium Channels / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D012604:Scorpion Venoms / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001514:Bee Venoms; D004546:Elapid Venoms; D009498:Neurotoxins; D015221:Potassium Channels; D012604:Scorpion Venoms; D018999:Charybdotoxin; D001030:Apamin; C020273:dendrotoxin; C052567:noxiustoxin