Factors involved in the susceptibility of spontaneously hypertensive rats to low K+-induced arrhythmias

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-382

  Tribulova, Narcis ^a   Okruhlicova, L ^a   Imanaga, I ^b   Hirosawa, N ^b   Ogawa, K ^b   Weismann, P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Hypokalaemia and arrhythmias; Monophasic action potential; SHR

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HYPOKALEMIA; IMMUNODETECTION; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346266097     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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