"omega-Conotoxins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of structurally related neurotoxic peptides from mollusk venom that inhibit voltage-activated entry of calcium into the presynaptic membrane. They selectively inhibit N-, P-, and Q-type calcium channels.
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D020960
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.888.590.162.720 D23.946.580.590.162.720 D23.946.833.590.162.720
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "omega-Conotoxins" by people in Profiles.
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Anand P, O'Neil A, Lin E, Douglas T, Holford M. Tailored delivery of analgesic ziconotide across a blood brain barrier model using viral nanocontainers. Sci Rep. 2015 Aug 03; 5:12497.
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Bingham JP, Mitsunaga E, Bergeron ZL. Drugs from slugs--past, present and future perspectives of omega-conotoxin research. Chem Biol Interact. 2010 Jan 05; 183(1):1-18.
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Ohia SE, Awe SO, Opere CA, LeDay AM, Harris LC, Kulkarni K, Sharif NA. Glucose-deprivation-induced [3H]D-aspartate release from isolated bovine and human retinae. J Ocul Pharmacol Ther. 2003 Dec; 19(6):599-609.
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Porter JT, McCarthy KD. Hippocampal astrocytes in situ respond to glutamate released from synaptic terminals. J Neurosci. 1996 Aug 15; 16(16):5073-81.