Begetting atrial fibrillation: Connexins and arrhythmogenesis

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 888-891

  Gollob, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNE2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNJ2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LONG QT SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 44549084569     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.11.023     Document Type: Article

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