Article
Sudden cardiac death: a matter of faulty ion channels?
Current biology : CB - 1 Jan 2000
Jongsma H J
Abstract excerpt
Recent evidence suggests that various forms of sudden cardiac death in people with hearts that apparently function normally are caused by inherited or de novo mutations in genes coding for ion channel subunits.
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Heart
- Humans
- Ion Channels
- Models, Cardiovascular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- NAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Sodium Channels