Left-to-right atrial inward rectifier potassium current gradients in patients with paroxysmal versus chronic atrial fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 472-480

  Voigt, Niels ^a   Trausch, Anne ^a   Knaut, Michael ^b   Matschke, Klaus ^b   Varró, András ^d   Van Wagoner, David R ^c   Nattel, Stanley ^e   Ravens, Ursula ^a   Dobrev, Dobromir ^a,f  

^a Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrium; Fibrillation; Ion channels; Remodeling

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CARBACHOL; DIGITALIS; DIHYDROPYRIDINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.3; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.4; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; KCNJ4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL INWARD RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CURRENT; CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WESTERN BLOTTING; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 78049290135     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.954636     Document Type: Article

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