Distinct lethal arrhythmias susceptibility is associated with sex-related difference in myocardial connexin-43 expression

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 798-801

  Knezl, Vladimir ^a   Bačová, Barbora ^b   Kolenová, Lucia ^c   Mitašiková, Marcela ^d   Weismann, Peter ^b   Dřímal, Ján ^a   Tribulova, Narcis ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d Institute for Heart Research   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Gender differences; Lethal arrhythmias; Rat heart

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 57149122314     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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