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Functional suppression of sodium channels by beta(1)-subunits as a molecular mechanism of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Oct 2000
Wan X, Wang Q, Kirsch G E
Abstract excerpt
Ventricular fibrillation leading to sudden cardiac death can occur even in the absence of structural heart disease. One form of this so-called idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) is characterized by ST segment elevation (STE) in the electrocardiogram. Recently we found that IVF with STE is linked to mutations of SCN5A, the gene encoding the cardiac sodium channel alpha -subunit. Two types of defects were...
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