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Accelerated inactivation in a mutant Na+channel associated with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) can cause sudden death in both adults and children. One form of IVF (Brugada syndrome), characterized by S-T segment elevation (STE) in the electrocardiogram, has been linked to mutations of SCN5A, the gene encoding the voltage-gated cardiac Na(+) channel. A missense mutation of SCN5A that substitutes glutamine for leucine at codon 567 (L567Q, in the cytoplasmic linker...
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