Novel therapeutic targets for antiarrhythmic drugs
By: edited by George Edward Billman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780470261002
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Myocardial K+ channels : primary determinants of action potential repolarization / Noriko Niwa and Jeanne Nerbonne; title: The "funny" pacemaker current / Andrea  Barbuti ... [et al.]; title: Arrhythmia mechanisms in ischemia and infarction / Ruben Coronel ... [et al.]; title: Antiarrhythmic drug classification / Cynthia A. Carnes; title: Repolarization reserve and proarrhythmic risk / András Varró; title: Safety challenges in the development of novel antiarrhythmic drugs / Gary Gintant and Zhi Su; title: Safety pharmacology and regulatory issues in the development of antiarrhythmic medications / Armando Lagrutta and Joseph J. Salata; title: Ion channel remodeling and arrhythmias / Takeshi Aiba and Gordon F. Tomaselli; title: Redox modification of ryanodine receptors by heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias and failure : a potential therapeutic target / Andriy E. Belevych, Dmitry Terentyev, and Sandor Györke; title: Targeting Na+/CA²+ exchange as an antiarrhythmic strategy / Gundrun Antoons, Rik Willems, and Karin R. Sipido; title: Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) : modulation of ion currents and potential role for arrhythmias / Lars S. Maier; title: Selective targeting of ventricular potassium channels for arrhythmia suppression : feasible or risible? /  Hugh Clements-Jewery and Michael Curtis; title: Cardiac sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive potassium channel antagonists : a class of drugs that may selectively target the ischemic myocardium / George E. Billman; title: Mitochondrial origin of ischemia-reperfusion arrhythmias / Brian O'Rourke; title: Cardiac gap junctions : a new target for antiarrhythmic drugs : gap junction modulators / Anja Hagen and Stefan Dhein; title: Novel pharmacological targets for the management of atrial fibrillation / Alexander Burashnikov and Charles Antzelevitch; title: IKur, ultra-rapid delayed rectifier potassium current : a therapeutic target for atrial arrhythmias / Arun Sridhar and Cynthia A. Carnes; title: Non-pharmacologic manipulation of the autonomic nervous system in human for the prevention of life-threatening arrhythmias / Peter J. Schwartz; title: Effects of endurance exercise training on cardiac autonomic regulation and susceptibility to sudden cardiac death : a nonpharmacological approach for the prevention of ventricular fibrillation / George E. Billman; title: Dietary omega-3 fatty acids as a nonpharmacological antiarrhythmic intervention / Barry London and J. Michael Frangiskakis.