Female mice lacking estrogen receptor β display prolonged ventricular repolarization and reduced ventricular automaticity after myocardial infarction

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2282-2290

  Korte, Thomas ^a   Fuchs, Martin ^a   Arkudas, Andreas ^a   Geertz, Sebastian ^a   Meyer, Rainer ^b   Gardiwal, Ajmal ^a   Klein, Gunnar ^a   Niehaus, Michael ^a   Krust, Andrée ^d   Chambon, Pierre ^d   Drexler, Helmut ^a   Fink, Klaus ^b   Grohé, Christian ^c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Estrogens; Mice; Myocardial infarction; Receptors

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; LONG QT SYNDROME; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNELS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 20844459976     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000164262.08004.BB     Document Type: Article

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