Effects of heart disease on cardiac ion current density versus current amplitude: Important conceptual subtleties in the language of arrhythmogenic ion channel remodeling

Circulation Research

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1298-1300

  Nattel, Stanley ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; ION CURRENT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 44949222639     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.108.178087     Document Type: Editorial

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