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Cardiac channelopathies: genetic and molecular mechanisms.
Gene - 15 Mar 2013
Abriel Hugues, Zaklyazminskaya Elena V
Abstract excerpt
Channelopathies are diseases caused by dysfunctional ion channels, due to either genetic or acquired pathological factors. Inherited cardiac arrhythmic syndromes are among the most studied human disorders involving ion channels. Since seminal observations made in 1995, thousands of mutations have been found in many of the different genes that code for cardiac ion channel subunits and proteins that regulate the...
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