How do sex hormones modify arrhythmogenesis in long QT syndrome? Sex hormone effects on arrhythmogenic substrate and triggered activity

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2107-2115

  Odening, Katja E ^a   Koren, Gideon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenoceptors; Animal models; Ca2+ cycling proteins; Dispersion of cardiac repolarization; Early afterdepolarizations; Gender differences; Ion channels; Long QT syndrome; Mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

1 [2 (6 METHYL 2 PYRIDYL)ETHYL] 4 (4 METHYLSULFONYLAMINOBENZOYL)PIPERIDINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CALCIUM ION; ESTRADIOL; ION CHANNEL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; FAINTNESS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EXCITATION; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LONG QT SYNDROME; LONG QT SYNDROME 2; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84951574682     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.06.023     Document Type: Article

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