Blockade of the HERG Human Cardiac $K^+$ Channel by the Antidepressant Drug Amitriptyline

  • Jo, Su-Hyun (Department of Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Chin. O. (Department of Life Science, Pohang University of Science and Technolog) ;
  • Yung E. Earm (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicin) ;
  • Ho, Won-Kyung (Department of Physiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • 발행 : 1999.06.01

초록

Amitriptyline has been known to induce QT prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias such as torsades de pointes which causes sudden death. We studied the effects of amitriptyline on the human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG) channel expressed in Xenopus oocytes.(omitted)

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