Potassium channel diversity in the pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins: Implications for regulation of the pulmonary vasculature in health and during pulmonary hypertension

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-69

  Bonnet, Sébastien ^b   Archer, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

High altitude pulmonary edema; Kv1.5; L type calcium channel; Pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary veins; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALPHA CHAIN; APOPTOSIS; BETA CHAIN; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOSOL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EDEMA; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALCIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY VEINS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 34347265735     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2007.03.014     Document Type: Review

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