Voltage-gated Sodium Channels: Structure, Function and Channelopathies

Preface.- Part I.- Evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels.- 1. Evolutionary History of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.- 2. Mining Protein Evolution for Insights into Mechanisms of Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channel Auxiliary Subunits.&nbsp;- Part II. The structural basis of sodium channel function.- 3. Structural and Functional Analysis of Sodium Channels Viewed from an Evolutionary Perspective.- 4. The Cardiac Sodium Channel and Its&nbsp;Protein Partners.- 5. : Posttranslational Modification of Sodium Channels.- 6. Sodium Channel Trafficking.- 7. pH Modulation of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.- 8. Regulation of Cardiac Voltage-Gated&nbsp;Sodium Channel by Kinases: Roles of Protein Kinases A and C.-&nbsp;Part III.&nbsp;Drugs and toxins interactions with sodium channels.-&nbsp;9. Toxins That Affect Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.- 10. Mechanisms of Drug Binding to Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.- 11. Effects of Benzothiazolamines on Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.- 12. Structural Models of Ligand-Bound Sodium Channels.- 13. Selective Ligands and Drug Discovery Targeting the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Nav1.7.- Part IV. Pathophysiology of sodium channels.-&nbsp;14. Sodium Channelopathies of Skeletal Muscle.- 15. Cardiac Arrhythmias Related to Sodium Channel Dysfunction.- 16. Translational Model Systems for Complex<div>Sodium Channel Pathophysiology in Pain.- 17. Gating Pore Currents in Sodium Channels.- 18. Calculating the Consequences of Left-Shifted Nav Channel Activity in Sick Excitable Cells.- 19. Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel b Subunits and Their Related Diseases.&nbsp;</div>