HERG channel function: Beyond long QT

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 329-335

  Babcock, Joseph J ^a   Li, Min ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; cardiotoxicity; hERG; long QT; potassium channel

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; IMATINIB; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ1; PROTIRELIN;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBELLUM; DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARY CARCINOMA; PH; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874612391     PISSN: 16714083     EISSN: 17457254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aps.2013.6     Document Type: Review

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