A mouse model to study the link between hypoxia, long QT interval and sudden infant death syndrome

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 503-507

  Neary, Marianne T ^a   Mohun, Timothy J ^a   Breckenridge, Ross A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTEGRASES; ION CHANNELS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RISK FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 84875188212     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.010587     Document Type: Article

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