A major role for hERG in determining frequency of reentry in neonatal rat ventricular myocyte monolayer

Circulation Research

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1503-1511

  Hou, Luqia ^a   Deo, Makarand ^a   Furspan, Philip ^a   Pandit, Sandeep V ^a   Mironov, Sergey ^a   Auerbach, David S ^a,b   Gong, Qiuming ^c   Zhou, Zhengfeng ^c   Berenfeld, Omer ^a   Jalife, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

delayed rectifier potassium channel; hERG; optical mapping; reentry; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; UPREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HEART VENTRICLES; KINETICS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; POTASSIUM; RATS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, RECIPROCATING; TRANSFECTION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 78650717034     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.232470     Document Type: Article

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