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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2008, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 463-467.

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Effects of brain derived neurotrophic factor on ion channel

LI Guan-hua1, FENG Ze-guo1, ZHOU Jian-ping2 , WANG Hong1   

  1. 1 Anesthesia and Operation Center, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing 100853 , China ;
    2Institute of Pharma-cology and Toxicology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing 100850 , China
  • Received:2007-01-24 Revised:2008-02-29 Online:2008-04-26 Published:2020-10-12

Abstract: Brain derived neurotrophic factor ( BD-NF) is one of the family of neurotrophic factors (NTF) which plays an important role in the growth, develop-ment, differentiation, maintenance and regeneration of various types of neurons in the CNS and PNS .BDNF also can affect the resting membrane potential of neu-rons, nervous excitation and synaptic transmission .It plays a critical role in the induction of synaptic plastic-ity .Many of these effects of BDNF are mediated by its modulation of ion channel properties .Recent report have shown that BDNF not only acts as a modulation of ion channels following TrkB-mediated activation of in-tracellular second messenger cascades and protein phosphorylation, but can also directly opens a Na+ channel. Thus, in addition its role as a potent neuromodulator,BDNF emerges as an excitatory transmitter.

Key words: brain derived neurotrophic factor, lon channel, receptor, neuron

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