Reduced connexin40 protein expression in the right atrial appendage of patients bearing the minor connexin40 allele (-44 G → A)

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1199-1205

  Chaldoupi, Sevasti Maria ^a   Hubens, Lisette E G ^a   Smit Duijzentkunst, Daan A ^a   Van Stuijvenberg, Leonie ^a   Bierhuizen, Marti F A ^a   Van Aarnhem, Egidius E H L ^a   Nelen, Marcel ^a   De Bakker, Jacques M T ^a,b,c   Hauer, Richard N W ^a   Van Rijen, Harold V M ^a   Loh, Peter ^a   Van Veen, Toon A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connexin; Patients; Polymorphism; Post operative AF

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNEXINS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84864426209     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus047     Document Type: Article

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