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Mouse models of SCN5A-related cardiac arrhythmias.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2000
Charpentier Flavien, Bourgé Anne, Mérot Jean
Abstract excerpt
Both gain- and loss-of-function mutations in the SCN5A gene, which encodes the alpha-subunit of the cardiac voltage-gated Na+ channel Na(v)1.5, are well established to underlie hereditary arrhythmic syndromes (cardiac channelopathies) such as the type 3 long QT syndrome, cardiac conduction diseases, Brugada syndrome, sick sinus syndrome, atrial standstill and numerous overlap syndromes. Although patch-clamp...
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