Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20519310›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of physiology2010

Going native: voltage-gated potassium channels controlling neuronal excitability.

Jamie Johnston, Ian D Forsythe, Conny Kopp-Scheinpflug

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of physiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
179citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

179 citing papers in PubMed, 291 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Input-Specific Organization of Intrinsic Excitability Expands Coding Capacity of Fast-Spiking Auditory Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Neuronal plasticity at puberty in mouse hypothalamicProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Voltage sensors.Molecular pharmacology · 2025
    Review

119 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jamie JohnstonMRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
Ian D Forsythe
Conny Kopp-Scheinpflug
University of Leicester · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105178794Medical Research Council MC_U132681855
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review we take a physiological perspective on the role of voltage-gated potassium channels in an identified neuron in the auditory brainstem. The large number of KCN genes for potassium channel subunits and the heterogeneity of the subunit combination into K(+) channels make identification of native conductances especially difficult. We provide a general pharmacological and biophysical profile to help identify the common voltage-gated K(+) channel families in a neuron. Then we consider the physiological role of each of these conductances from the perspective of the principal neuron in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB). The MNTB is an inverting relay, converting excitation generated by sound from one cochlea into inhibition of brainstem nuclei on the opposite side of the brain; this information is crucial for binaural comparisons and sound localization. The important features of MNTB action potential (AP) firing are inferred from its inhibitory projections to four key target nuclei involved in sound localization (which is the foundation of auditory scene analysis in higher brain centres). These are: the medial superior olive (MSO), the lateral superior olive (LSO), the superior paraolivary nucleus (SPN) and the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus (NLL). The Kv families represented in the MNTB each have a distinct role: Kv1 raises AP firing threshold; Kv2 influences AP repolarization and hyperpolarizes the inter-AP membrane potential during high frequency firing; and Kv3 accelerates AP repolarization. These actions are considered in terms of fidelity of transmission, AP duration, firing rates and temporal jitter. An emerging theme is activity-dependent phosphorylation of Kv channel activity and suggests that intracellular signalling has a dynamic role in refining neuronal excitability and homeostasis.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnimalsAuditory PathwaysEvoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain StemHumansIon Channel GatingNeuronsPotassium Channels, Voltage-GatedPotassium Channels, Voltage-Gated

Identifiers

PMID20519310
PMCPMC2976014
OpenAlexW1487102420

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.