Targeting the voltage-dependent K+ channels Kv1. 3 and Kv1. 5 as tumor biomarkers for cancer detection and prevention

A Felipe, J Bielanska, N Comes… - Current medicinal …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Potassium channels (KCh) are a diverse group of membrane proteins that participate in the
control of the membrane potential. More than eighty different KCh genes have been …

IKur/Kv1.5 channel blockers for the treatment of atrial fibrillation

J Tamargo, R Caballero, R Gómez… - Expert opinion on …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. Anti-arrhythmic drugs
remain the mainstay of therapy, but the available class I and III anti-arrhythmic drugs are …

Assessment of proarrhythmogenic risk for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine using the CiPA concept

U Thomet, B Amuzescu, T Knott, SA Mann… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been proposed recently as therapy for SARS-
CoV-2-infected patients, but during 3 months of extensive use concerns were raised related …

Drug-induced QT/QTc interval shortening: lessons from drug-induced QT/QTc prolongation

M Malik - Drug safety, 2016 - Springer
The review discusses safety implications of drugs found to shorten the QT/QTc interval. It
uses parallels with drug-induced QT/QTc prolongation. It summarizes the evidence that …

Coupling of excitation to Ca2+ release is modulated by dysferlin

V Lukyanenko, JM Muriel… - The Journal of Physiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Dysferlin, the protein missing in limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2B and Miyoshi
myopathy, concentrates in transverse tubules of skeletal muscle, where it stabilizes voltage …

Intravenous anesthetic propofol inhibits multiple human cardiac potassium channels.

L Yang, H Liu, HY Sun, GR Li - Anesthesiology, 2015 - europepmc.org
Background Propofol is widely used clinically for the induction and maintenance of
anesthesia. Clinical case reports have shown that propofol has an antiatrial …

The potential role of Kv4.3 K+ channel in heart hypertrophy

R Huo, Y Sheng, WT Guo, DL Dong - Channels, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Transient outward K+ current (Ito) plays a crucial role in the early phase of cardiac action
potential repolarization. Kv4. 3 K+ channel is an important component of Ito. The function …

Open channel block of the fast transient outward K+ current by primaquine and chloroquine in rat left ventricular cardiomyocytes

M Wagner, KG Riepe, E Eberhardt, T Volk - European journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Anti-malarial drugs may have severe adverse cardiac effects as a result of their ion channel
blocking properties. Here we investigate the effect of the aminoquinolines primaquine and …

Spironolactone and its main metabolite canrenoic acid block hKv1. 5, Kv4. 3 and Kv7. 1+ minK channels

R Gómez, L Núñez, R Caballero… - British journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Both spironolactone (SP) and its main metabolite, canrenoic acid (CA), prolong cardiac
action potential duration and decrease the Kv11. 1 (HERG) current. We examined the effects …

Inhibition of cardiac Kv1. 5 and Kv4. 3 potassium channels by the class Ia anti-arrhythmic ajmaline: mode of action

F Fischer, N Vonderlin, E Zitron, C Seyler… - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's …, 2013 - Springer
Ajmaline is a class Ia anti-arrhythmic compound that is widely used for the diagnosis of
Brugada syndrome and the acute treatment of atrial or ventricular tachycardia. For ajmaline …