Cell therapy for modification of the myocardial electrophysiological substrate

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 720-731

  Yankelson, Lior ^a   Feld, Yair ^a   Bressler Stramer, Tal ^a   Itzhaki, Ilanit ^a   Huber, Irit ^a   Gepstein, Amira ^a   Aronson, Doron ^a   Marom, Shimon ^a   Gepstein, Lior ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Electrophysiology; Gene therapy; Ion channels; Mapping

Indexed keywords

MARGATOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.3; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE THERAPY; MALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 39549093147     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.671776     Document Type: Article

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