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Transgenic mice overexpressing human KvLQT1 dominant-negative isoform. Part I: Phenotypic characterisation.
Cardiovascular research - 1 May 2001
Demolombe S, Lande G, Charpentier F, van Roon M A, van den Hoff M J, Toumaniantz G, Baro I, Guihard G, Le Berre N, Corbier A, de Bakker J, Opthof T, Wilde A, Moorman A F, Escande D
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The KCNQ1 gene encodes the KvLQT1 potassium channel, which generates in the human heart the slow component of the cardiac delayed rectifier current, I(Ks). Mutations in KCNQ1 are the most frequent cause of the congenital long QT syndrome. We have previously cloned a cardiac KCNQ1 human isoform, which exerts a strong dominant-negative effect on KvLQT1 channels. We took advantage of this...
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