Chronic atrial fibrillation up-regulates β1-Adrenoceptors affecting repolarizing currents and action potential duration

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 379-388

  De La Fuente, Marta González ^a   Barana, Adriana ^a   Gómez, Ricardo ^a   Amorós, Irene ^a,b   Dolz Gaitón, Pablo ^a,b   Sacristán, Sandra ^a,b   Atienza, Felipe ^b,c   Pita, Ana ^b,c   Pinto, Ángel ^b,c   Fernández Avilés, Francisco ^b,c   Caballero, Ricardo ^a,b   Tamargo, Juan ^a   Delpón, Eva ^a,b  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Chronic atrial fibrillation; Electrical remodelling; Human myocytes; Right and left atria; Voltage dependent and inward rectifying potassium channels

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; ISOPRENALINE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIATOR; PATCH CLAMP; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; SPONTANEOUS TRANSIENT OUTWARD CURRENT; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-1; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872512205     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvs313     Document Type: Article

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