Insights into sick sinus syndrome from an inducible mouse model

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-48

  Herrmann, Stefan ^a   Fabritz, Larissa ^b   Layh, Beate ^a   Kirchhof, Paulus ^b   Ludwig, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Sick sinus syndrome; Sino atrial node; Site specific recombination; Transgenic animal

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CHRONOTROPISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS NODE; SINUS PAUSE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEART RATE; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINOATRIAL NODE; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952823888     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvq390     Document Type: Article

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