Editorial: Animal Toxins as Comprehensive Pharmacological Tools to Identify Diverse Ion Channels

Yuri Utkin¹, Alexander Vassilevski^{2

3}, Denis Kudryavtsev⁴, Eivind A B Undheim^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Molecular Toxinology, Department of Neuroimmunosignaling, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
² Laboratory of Molecular Instruments for Neurobiology, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
³ Phystech School of Biological and Medical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Russia.
⁴ Laboratory of Ligand-Receptor Interactions, Department of Neuroimmunosignaling, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁶ Department of Biosciences, Centre for Ecology and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Editorial

Yuri Utkin et al. Front Pharmacol. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 24:10:423.

doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00423. eCollection 2019.

Yuri Utkin¹, Alexander Vassilevski^{2

3}, Denis Kudryavtsev⁴, Eivind A B Undheim^{5

6}

¹ Laboratory of Molecular Toxinology, Department of Neuroimmunosignaling, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
² Laboratory of Molecular Instruments for Neurobiology, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
³ Phystech School of Biological and Medical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Russia.
⁴ Laboratory of Ligand-Receptor Interactions, Department of Neuroimmunosignaling, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁶ Department of Biosciences, Centre for Ecology and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Keywords: animal toxin; ion channel; ligand-gated channel; scorpion; snake; spider; voltage-gated channel.

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Editorial on the Research Topic Animal Toxins as Comprehensive Pharmacological Tools to Identify Diverse Ion Channels

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