IK1 modulates the U-wave: insights in a 100-year-old enigma

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 393-400

  Postema, Pieter G ^a   Ritsema van Eck, Henk J ^b   Opthof, Tobias ^a   van Herpen, Gerard ^b   van Dessel, Pascal F H M ^a   Priori, Silvia G ^c   Wolpert, Christian ^d   Borggrefe, Martin ^d   Kors, Jan A ^b   Wilde, Arthur A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Electrocardiography; Ion channelopathies; U wave

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNH2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNJ2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ERG1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNJ2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KCNQ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

ADULT; AGED; ANDERSEN SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SHORT QT SYNDROME; U WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; LONG QT SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANDERSEN SYNDROME; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 60749108356     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.11.024     Document Type: Article

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