Regional, age-dependent, and genotype-dependent differences in ventricular action potential duration and activation time in 410 Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 523-533

  Waldeyer, Christoph ^a,b   Fabritz, Larissa ^a,b   Fortmueller, Lisa ^a,b   Gerss, Joachim ^a   Damke, Dierk ^a   Blana, Andreas ^a   Laakmann, Sandra ^a,b   Kreienkamp, Nina ^a,b   Volkery, Daniela ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a   Kirchhof, Paulus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action potential; Aging; Arrhythmia; Genotype; Mouse; Repolarization; Sex; Transgenic models

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BODY WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART EXCITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYBRID; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, ANIMAL; PERFUSION; PHENOTYPE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 70349694223     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-009-0019-1     Document Type: Article

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