Sex and gender aspects in antiarrhythmic therapy

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 214, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-263

  Kurokawa, Junko ^a   Kodama, Masami ^a   Furukawa, Tetsushi ^a   Clancy, Colleen E ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ION CHANNEL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SEX HORMONE;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PR INTERVAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT QT INTERVAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T WAVE; TORSADE DES POINTES; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84868327387     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: 18650325     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30726-3_12     Document Type: Article

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