Kv1.1 potassium channel deficiency reveals brain-driven cardiac dysfunction as a candidate mechanism for sudden unexplained death in epilepsy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5167-5175

  Glasscock, Edward ^a   Yoo, Jong W ^a   Chen, Tim T ^a   Klassen, Tara L ^a   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV1.1; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEART DISEASE; HEART RHYTHM; MOUSE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POTASSIUM CHANNELOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATROPINE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART; KV1.1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PROPRANOLOL; SEIZURES; VAGUS NERVE; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77951009584     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5591-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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