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Common Variants of the Sodium Channel Alpha Subunits

The SCN5A gene encodes a human cardiac sodium (Na+) channel alpha subunit that carries the inward Na+ current in the heart. Three distinct polymorphic SCN5A clones, hH1, hH1a and hH1b, have been isola...
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Jonathan Makielski, Bin Ye, Michael Ackerman | P02284US

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Controllable Murine Models of First Pass Metabolism

The liver detoxifies many of the drugs and toxins in blood, which poses a problem in drug development and testing because drugs are rapidly cleared from the system. In the mammalian fetus, the liver i...
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Christopher Bradfield, Jacqueline Walisser, Tami Thomae | P04330US

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HERG CDNA with Native PolyA Tail

The human ERG gene encodes a potassium channel that is expressed in the heart. Mutations in the HERG channel are a common cause of long QT syndrome, a disorder associated with delayed cardiac repolari...
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Gail Robertson, Eugenia Jones, Blake Anson | P05401US

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Stable Cell Lines Expressing hERG1a and 1b

Cardiac IKr channels are targets associated with inherited and acquired long QT syndrome (LQTS), a disorder that can lead to ventricular arrhythmias. Previously, IKr channels were thought to be compos...
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Gail Robertson, Eugenia Jones, Jinling Wang | P03380US

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Human Heart Sodium Channel Beta1 Subunit (SCNB1)

The human heart sodium channel beta1 subunit (SCNB1) is a protein encoded by a single gene. It interacts with the alpha subunit to alter the functional properties of the channel. In addition, SCNB1 is...
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Jonathan Makielski, Bin Ye | P03207US

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HERG-1 Transfected HEK 293 Cell Line B

Re-polarization of the cardiac action potential, which plays a critical role in maintaining normal cardiac rhythm, occurs mainly due to the action of potassium ion (K+) currents in the heart. The most...
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Craig January, Zhengfeng Zhou, Qiuming Gong, Gail Robertson, Blake Anson, Matthew Trudeau, Corey Anderson | P04289US

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Cell Line Stably Expressing KvLQT1 and minK

One of the key potassium channels in the heart is formed by the co-assembly of protein products from the KvLQT1 (KCNQ1) and minK (KCNE1) genes, which produce the slowly activating delayed rectifier po...
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Craig January, Sridharan Rajamani, Corey Anderson | P03073US

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Mouse Model of Diabetes

There is a lack of effective and non-destructive treatments for diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in the United States. Thrombospondin1 (TSP1), a matricellular protein that inhibits ang...
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Nader Sheibani-Karkhaneh, Christine Sorenson | P04228US

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Method to Screen for Novel Antibiotics

The antibiotic vancomycin targets the peptidoglycan-containing bacterial cell wall. Inducible resistance to vancomycin and other glycopeptide antibiotics is becoming a serious health problem, necessit...
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Bernard Weisblum, Robert Giannattasio, Arcady Grenader, Andrew Ulijasz, David Kovalic | P96061US

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Tsp1 -/- Stz Mice, A Model For Diabetes

Effective and non-destructive treatments are needed for diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in the United States. Thrombospondin1 (TSP1), a matricellular protein that inhibits angiogenesi...
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Nader Sheibani-Karkhaneh, Christine Sorenson | P06036US

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Stem Cell Marker for Breast Cancer

In patients who develop breast cancer, malignant tumors frequently begin in somatic mammary stem cells. In addition, breast tumors have a stem cell component that propagates the tumor, which may expla...
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Caroline Alexander, Bart Williams, Charlotta Lindvall, Nisha Badders | P07136US

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