Atrial arrhythmogenesis in wild-type and Scn5a+/Δ murine hearts modelling LQT3 syndrome

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 458, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 443-457

  Dautova, Yana ^a   Zhang, Yanmin ^b   Sabir, Ian ^a   Grace, Andrew A ^a   Huang, Christopher L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial tachycardia; Long QT syndrome; Na+ channels; Scn5a+

Indexed keywords

FLECAINIDE; QUINIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; LONG QT SYNDROME; LONG QT3 SYNDROME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLECAINIDE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; QUINIDINE; SODIUM CHANNELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649522221     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-008-0633-z     Document Type: Article

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