Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables sodium channel activity. Involved in osmosensory signaling pathway. Acts upstream of or within cellular homeostasis; response to bacterium; and sodium ion homeostasis. Located in glial cell projection. Is active in plasma membrane. Is expressed in heart and heart ventricle. Orthologous to human SCN7A (sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 7).