Canine ventricular KCNE2 expression resides predominantly in Purkinje fibers

Circulation Research

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-191

  Pourrier, Marc ^a   Zicha, Stephen ^a,b   Ehrlich, Joachim ^a   Han, Wei ^a   Nattel, Stanley ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ion channel; Long QT syndromes; Proarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MINK RELATED PEPTIDE 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KCNE2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HIS BUNDLE; KCNE2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PURKINJE FIBER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DOGS; HEART VENTRICLES; LONG QT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PURKINJE FIBERS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SINOATRIAL NODE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0042025143     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000084851.60947.B5     Document Type: Article

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