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Novel chemical suppressors of long QT syndrome identified by an in vivo functional screen.
Circulation - 4 Jan 2011
Peal David S, Mills Robert W, Lynch Stacey N, Mosley Janet M, Lim Evi, Ellinor Patrick T, January Craig T, Peterson Randall T, Milan David J
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BACKGROUND: Genetic long QT (LQT) syndrome is a life-threatening disorder caused by mutations that result in prolongation of cardiac repolarization. Recent work has demonstrated that a zebrafish model of LQT syndrome faithfully recapitulates several features of human disease, including prolongation of ventricular action potential duration, spontaneous early afterdepolarizations, and 2:1 atrioventricular block in...
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