Basis and Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 171
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Pharmacology.; Cardiology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology.

Table of Contents:

• History of Arrhythmias
• Pacemaker Current and Automatic Rhythms: Toward a Molecular Understanding
• Proarrhythmia
• Cardiac Na+ Channels as Therapeutic Targets for Antiarrhythmic Agents
• Structural Determinants of Potassium Channel Blockade and Drug-Induced Arrhythmias
• Sodium Calcium Exchange as a Target for Antiarrhythmic Therapy
• A Role for Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II in Cardiac Disease and Arrhythmia
• AKAPs as Antiarrhythmic Targets?
• ?-Blockers as Antiarrhythmic Agents
• Experimental Therapy of Genetic Arrhythmias: Disease-Specific Pharmacology
• Mutation-Specific Pharmacology of the Long QT Syndrome
• Therapy for the Brugada Syndrome
• Molecular Basis of Isolated Cardiac Conduction Disease
• hERG Trafficking and Pharmacological Rescue of LQTS-2 Mutant Channels.