Age, gender, and supraventricular arrhythmias: Roles of ion channels, connexins, and tissue architecture?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-398

  Nattel, Stanley ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ION CHANNEL; ISOPRENALINE; NEUROHORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADIPOCYTE MEMBRANE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGING; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HAPLOTYPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS NODE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WENCKEBACH PERIOD;

AGE FACTORS; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 7744223221     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.06.012     Document Type: Editorial

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