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Translational toxicology and rescue strategies of the hERG channel dysfunction: biochemical and molecular mechanistic aspects.
Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 1 Dec 2014
Zhang Kai-ping, Yang Bao-feng, Li Bao-xin
Abstract excerpt
The human ether-à-go-go related gene (hERG) potassium channel is an obligatory anti-target for drug development on account of its essential role in cardiac repolarization and its close association with arrhythmia. Diverse drugs have been removed from the market owing to their inhibitory activity on the hERG channel and their contribution to acquired long QT syndrome (LQTS). Moreover, mutations that cause hERG...
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