title: Volts and salts in pain relief.
abstract: Many pharmaceutical companies are pursuing the 'holy grail' of an effective pain relief drug that has no harmful side effects. The voltage-gated sodium channel family offers some promising targets.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford, UK. kevin.coward@pharm.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Coward
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015222:Sodium Channels / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D015222:Sodium Channels