Alterations in the expression of atrial calpains in electrical and structural remodeling during aging and atrial fibrillation

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1343-1352

  Xu, Guo Jun ^a   Gan, Tian Yi ^a   Tang, Bao Peng ^a   Chen, Zu Heng ^a   Mahemuti, Ailiman ^a   Jiang, Tao ^a   Song, Jian Guo ^a   Guo, Xia ^a   Li, Yao Dong ^a   Zhou, Xian Hui ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Li, Jin Xin ^a  

^a XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Atrial calpains; Atrial fibrillation; Structural remodeling

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALPAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINUS RHYTHM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALPAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84885139448     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1684     Document Type: Article

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