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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2008 Apr 23;326(1):270–277. doi: 10.1124/jpet.108.138370

Table 2.

Effect of Ethanol (C2, 190 mM) and Octanol (C8, 0.057 mM) on Activation and Inactivation of Four Different Sodium Channels (See Figures 4 and 5 for Details)

Holding −90 mV
Holding V1/2
Activation Control C2 C8 Control C2 C8
V1/2(mV)

Nav1.2 −32.2 ± 0.4 −29.5 ± 1.0* −28.9 ± 0.8** −25.2 ± 0.4 −22.2 ± 0.4** −22.5 ± 0.4**
Nav1.4 −42.6 ± 0.4 −41.8 ± 0.9 −42.5 ± 0.1 −32.7 ± 1.1 −29.5 ± 3.0 −27.8 ± 2.3
Nav1.6 −33.0 ± 0.7 −30.8 ± 1.1 −30.3 ± 1.6 −26.8 ± 0.5 −24.6 ± 0.9 −23.6 ± 0.7**
Nav1.8 4.2 ± 0.4 6.0 ± 0.8 5.1 ± 0.8 5.0 ± 0.6 7.8 ± 0.5 6.2 ± 1.4
Inactivation Control C2 C8

V1/2 (mV)

Nav1.2 −55.3 ± 0.6 −56.3 ± 0.8 −58.7 ± 0.9**
Nav1.4 −55.7 ± 0.3 −57.9 ± 0.7 −59.3 ± 1.0**
Nav1.6 −59.6 ± 0.6 −60.8 ± 1.0 −63.1 ± 0.5 *
Nav1.8 −53.6 ± 1.4 −55.7 ± 2.5 −55.3 ± 2.6
*

p < 0.05;

**

p < 0.01, compared with control by one-way analysis of variance (mean ± S.E.M.; n = 4–6).