Impact of KChiP2 on cardiac electrophysiology and the progression of heart failure

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 MAY, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Grubb, Søren ^a   Calloe, Kirstine ^a   Thomsen, Morten B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Action potential; Heart failure; Ion channels; Knockout mice; Potassium; Repolarization; Sudden death; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866433060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00118     Document Type: Article

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