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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2021

Modulation of Neuronal Potassium Channels During Auditory Processing.

Jing Wu, Leonard K Kaczmarek

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. 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
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  3. KvThe Journal of physiology · 2025
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  5. A Role for KCNQ Channels on Cell Type-Specific Plasticity in Mouse Auditory Cortex after Peripheral Damage.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  6. Modulation of potassium conductances optimizes fidelity of auditory information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jing WuDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Leonard K KaczmarekDepartment of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Yale University · US

Funding

EXPRESSION OF ION CHANNELS IN THE AUDITORY SYSTEMR01DC001919 · NIDCD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KACZMAREK, LEONARD K · 1993 to 2025
$9.7M
Cellular Regulation of Sodium-activated Potassium ChannelsR01NS102239 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEONARD K KACZMAREK · 2018 to 2026
$3.5M
Role of viral infections in potassium channel-related cerebellar ataxiaR01NS111242 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI IWASAKI, AKIKO, KACZMAREK, LEONARD K · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC001919NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102239NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111242
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extraction and localization of an auditory stimulus of interest from among multiple other sounds, as in the 'cocktail-party' situation, requires neurons in auditory brainstem nuclei to encode the timing, frequency, and intensity of sounds with high fidelity, and to compare inputs coming from the two cochleae. Accurate localization of sounds requires certain neurons to fire at high rates with high temporal accuracy, a process that depends heavily on their intrinsic electrical properties. Studies have shown that the membrane properties of auditory brainstem neurons, particularly their potassium currents, are not fixed but are modulated in response to changes in the auditory environment. Here, we review work focusing on how such modulation of potassium channels is critical to shaping the firing pattern and accuracy of these neurons. We describe how insights into the role of specific channels have come from human gene mutations that impair localization of sounds in space. We also review how short-term and long-term modulation of these channels maximizes the extraction of auditory information, and how errors in the regulation of these channels contribute to deficits in decoding complex auditory information.

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cocktail party effectfiring patternMNTBpotassium channelssound localization

Identifiers

PMID33613177
PMCPMC7887315
OpenAlexW3126817709

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