Altered expression of connexin43 contributes to the arrhythmogenic substrate during the development of heart failure in cardiomyopathic hamster

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sato, Takashi ^a   Ohkusa, Tomoko ^a   Honjo, Haruo ^b   Suzuki, Shinsuke ^a   Yoshida, Masa Aki ^a   Ishiguro, Yuko S ^b   Nakagawa, Harumichi ^b   Yamazaki, Masatoshi ^b   Yano, Masafumi ^a   Kodama, Itsuo ^b   Matsuzaki, Masunori ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Optical mapping; Phosphorylation; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; SERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GAP JUNCTION; HAMSTER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CONNEXIN 43; CRICETINAE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 41549143594     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00960.2007     Document Type: Article

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