Genetically modified mice: Tools to decode the functions of connexins in the heart - New models for cardiovascular research

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-308

  Gros, Daniel ^a   Dupays, Laurent ^a,b   Alcoléa, Sébastien ^a,c   Meysen, Sonia ^a   Miquerol, Lucile ^a   Théveniau Ruissy, Magali ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Lab Physiopathol Pharmacologie C   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia (mechanisms); Conduction (block); Connexins; Developmental biology; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MYOSIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DESMOSOME; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CONNEXINS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HEART BLOCK; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC;

EID: 1942502918     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.02.010     Document Type: Review

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