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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2025

Voltage-gated sodium channels in excitable cells as drug targets.

Matthew Alsaloum, Sulayman D Dib-Hajj, Dana A Page, Peter C Ruben, Adrian R Krainer, Stephen G Waxman

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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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

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Matthew AlsaloumDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9832-0138
Sulayman D Dib-HajjDepartment of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4137-1655
Dana A PageDepartment of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Peter C RubenDepartment of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Adrian R KrainerCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9024-9501
Stephen G WaxmanDepartment of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Stephen.waxman@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5718-7177

Funding

VIRAL TRANSACTIVATIONP01CA013106 · NCI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI William Richard McCombie · 1985 to 2026
$116.8M
BIOCHEMISTRY OF PREMRNA SPLICINGR01GM042699 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI Adrian R Krainer · 1989 to 2026
$8.8M
Biochemistry of Pre-mRNA SplicingR37GM042699 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI KRAINER, ADRIAN R · 2012 to 2021
$7.7M
NCI NIH HHS CA13106NCI NIH HHS P01 CA013106NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM042699NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM042699RRD VA I50 RX002999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excitable cells - including neurons, muscle cells and cardiac myocytes - are unique in expressing high densities of voltage-gated sodium (Na

Indexed as

Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel BlockersVoltage-Gated Sodium ChannelsAction PotentialsAnimalsHumansMyocytes, CardiacNeuronsVoltage-Gated Sodium Channel BlockersVoltage-Gated Sodium Channels

Identifiers

PMID39901031
PMCPMC12379884

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