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Ryanodine receptor-targeted anti-arrhythmic therapy.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jun 2005
Wehrens Xander H T, Lehnart Stephan E, Marks Andrew R
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac arrhythmia is an important cause of death in patients with heart failure (HF) and inherited arrhythmia syndromes, such as catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Alterations in intracellular calcium handling play a prominent role in the generation of arrhythmias in the failing heart. Diastolic calcium leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) via cardiac ryanodine receptors (RyR2)...
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