Inward rectifiers and their regulation by endogenous polyamines

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5 AUG, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Baronas, Victoria A ^a   Kurata, Harley Takatsuna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,12 DODECANEDIAMINE; BIS ETHYLSPERMINE; CADAVERINE; CHLOROQUINE; DECAMETHONIUM; ETHYLENEDIAMINE; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR1.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.X; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR3.X; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.X; POLYAMINE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; POTASSIUM CHANNELOPATHY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SHORT QT SYNDROME;

EID: 84906492183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00325     Document Type: Review

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