Muscarinic subtype-2 receptor autoantibodies: Actors or bystanders in human atrial fibrillation?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1091-1092

  Dobrev, Dobromir ^a   Christ, Torsten ^a   Ravens, Ursula ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AUTOANTIBODY; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DOWN REGULATION; EDITORIAL; GENDER AND SEX; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOANTIBODIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HUMANS; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M2;

EID: 3042630470     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.05.001     Document Type: Editorial

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