Funny channel-based pacemaking

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 276-279

  DiFrancesco, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diastolic depolarization; Funny current; HCN channels; HCN4 channelopathies; Heart rate reducing agents; Pacemaker; Rate modulation; Sinoatrial node

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; ION CURRENT; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL; SINUS NODE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BENZAZEPINES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MUTATION;

EID: 74449083353     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.030     Document Type: Article

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