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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1996 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
  • 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Clay M. Armstrong is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research focuses on the regulation and function of ion channels, with particular attention to their role in neuroscience and cardiac electrophysiology. The scientist's work spans several main fields of study including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; and Medicine.

Within these fields, Armstrong's subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding cellular functions and their implications for heart and nervous system activity.

The primary scientific topics addressed in Armstrong's research are:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Clay M. Armstrong has contributed to the Biophysical Journal among other scientific venues. The notable recent publication includes:

  • "Na+ and K+ channels: history and structure," published in 2021 in Biophysical Journal

The scientist has collaborated with coauthors such as Stephen Hollingworth, among others. This collaboration indicates active engagement with peers in related fields to advance study on ion channels and their physiological implications.

Best Publications

  • Inactivation of the sodium channel. I. Sodium current experiments.

    Francisco Bezanilla;Clay M. Armstrong

  • Interaction of tetraethylammonium ion derivatives with the potassium channels of giant axons.

    Clay M. Armstrong

  • Charge Movement Associated with the Opening and Closing of the Activation Gates of the Na Channels

    Clay M. Armstrong;Francisco Bezanilla

  • Currents Related to Movement of the Gating Particles of the Sodium Channels

    Clay M. Armstrong;Clay M. Armstrong;Francisco Bezanilla;Francisco Bezanilla;Francisco Bezanilla

  • Destruction of sodium conductance inactivation in squid axons perfused with pronase.

    Clay M. Armstrong;Francisco Bezanilla;Eduardo Rojas

  • Sodium channels and gating currents.

    C M Armstrong

  • Negative Conductance Caused by Entry of Sodium and Cesium Ions into the Potassium Channels of Squid Axons

    Francisco Bezanilla;Clay M. Armstrong

  • Inactivation of the potassium conductance and related phenomena caused by quaternary ammonium ion injection in squid axons.

    Clay M. Armstrong

  • Synaptic- and agonist-induced excitatory currents of Purkinje cells in rat cerebellar slices.

    I Llano;A Marty;C M Armstrong;A Konnerth

  • Twitches in the presence of ethylene glycol bis(β-aminoethyl ether)-N,N′-tetraacetic acid

    C.M. Armstrong;F.M Bezanilla;P. Horowicz

  • ANOMALOUS RECTIFICATION IN THE SQUID GIANT AXON INJECTED WITH TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE.

    Clay M. Armstrong;Leonard Binstock

  • Voltage-Gated Ion Channels and Electrical Excitability

    Clay M Armstrong;Bertil Hille

  • Synaptic currents in cerebellar Purkinje cells

    Arthur Konnerth;Isabel Llano;Clay M. Armstrong

  • Ionic pores, gates, and gating currents.

    Clay M. Armstrong

  • Two distinct populations of calcium channels in a clonal line of pituitary cells.

    Armstrong Cm;Matteson Dr

  • The inner quaternary ammonium ion receptor in potassium channels of the node of Ranvier.

    Clay M. Armstrong;Bertil Hille

  • Time Course of TEA+-Induced Anomalous Rectification in Squid Giant Axons

    Clay M. Armstrong

  • K+ channels close more slowly in the presence of external K+ and Rb+.

    R. P. Swenson;C. M. Armstrong

  • Properties of two types of calcium channels in clonal pituitary cells

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  • Inhibitory synaptic currents in rat cerebellar Purkinje cells: modulation by postsynaptic depolarization.

    P Vincent;C M Armstrong;A Marty

  • THE EFFECTS OF SEVERAL ALCOHOLS ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE SQUID GIANT AXON.

    Clay M. Armstrong;Leonard Binstock

  • Phospho-dependent binding of the clathrin AP2 adaptor complex to GABAA receptors regulates the efficacy of inhibitory synaptic transmission

    Josef T. Kittler;Guojun Chen;Stephan Honing;Yury Bogdanov

  • Ion channels: from idea to reality.

    Bertil Hille;Clay M. Armstrong;Clay M. Armstrong;Roderick MacKinnon

  • Fast and slow steps in the activation of sodium channels.

    Clay M. Armstrong;F. Wm Gilly

  • External calcium ions are required for potassium channel gating in squid neurons

    Clay M. Armstrong;Jose Lopez-Barneo

  • C-type inactivation of voltage-gated K+ channels: Pore constriction or dilation?

    Toshinori Hoshi;Clay M. Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshinori Hoshi
Toshinori Hoshi University of Pennsylvania
Wade G. Regehr
Wade G. Regehr Harvard Medical School
Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille University of Washington
Arthur Konnerth
Arthur Konnerth Technical University of Munich
Kamran Khodakhah
Kamran Khodakhah Albert Einstein College of Medicine
José López-Barneo
José López-Barneo Spanish National Research Council
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano University of Tokyo
Beat H. Gähwiler
Beat H. Gähwiler University of Zurich
Jens Eilers
Jens Eilers Leipzig University
Isabel Llano
Isabel Llano Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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