The Lambeth Conventions (II): guidelines for the study of animal and human ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias

MJ Curtis, JC Hancox, A Farkas, CL Wainwright… - Pharmacology & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The 'Lambeth Conventions' is a guidance document, written in 1987 (Walker et al., 1988),
intended to be of practical value in the investigation of experimental arrhythmias induced by …

Isolated heart perfusion according to Langendorff—still viable in the new millennium

M Skrzypiec-Spring, B Grotthus, A Szeląg… - … of pharmacological and …, 2007 - Elsevier
The isolated perfused mammalian heart preparation was established in 1897 by Oscar
Langendorff. The method was developed on the basis of the isolated perfused frog heart …

Inward rectifiers in the heart: an update on IK1

AN Lopatin, CG Nichols - Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology, 2001 - Elsevier
The cardiac inward rectifier potassium current (IK1), present in all ventricular and atrial
myocytes, has been suggested to play a major role in repolarization of the action potential …

The electrophysiological development of cardiomyocytes

J Liu, Z Laksman, PH Backx - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The generation of human cardiomyocytes (CMs) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)
has become an important resource for modeling human cardiac disease and for drug …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac voltage-gated ion channels in safety pharmacology: Review of the landscape leading to the CiPA initiative

H Huang, MK Pugsley, B Fermini, MJ Curtis… - … of Pharmacological and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Voltage gated ion channels are central in defining the fundamental properties of the
ventricular cardiac action potential (AP), and are also involved in the development of drug …

Characterisation, utilisation and clinical relevance of isolated perfused heart models of ischaemia-induced ventricular fibrillation

MJ Curtis - Cardiovascular Research, 1998 - academic.oup.com
The isolated perfused heart has been used increasingly during the last decade as a model
for identifying actions of drugs on ventricular fibrillation (VF) induced by myocardial …

Species plays an important role in drug‐induced prolongation of action potential duration and early afterdepolarizations in isolated Purkinje fibers

HR Lu, R Marien, ANN Saels… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Species and Drug‐Induced Long APD and EADs. Introduction: Although isolated Purkinje
fibers (PFs) often are used to evaluate the electrophysiologic effects of new drugs in terms of …

The molecular and ionic specificity of antiarrhythmic drug actions

S Nattel - Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The Molecular and Ionic Specificity of Antiarrhythmic Drug Actions. Virtually all clinical
antiarrhythmic agents act by reducing ion channel conductance, with sodium (Na+) …

Pharmacology of cardiac potassium channels

GR Li, MQ Dong - Advances in pharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Cardiac K+ channels are cardiomyocyte membrane proteins that regulate K+ ion flow across
the cell membrane on the electrochemical gradient and determine the resting membrane …

Assessment of reverse use-dependent blocking actions of class III antiarrhythmic drugs by 24-hour Holter electrocardiography

Y Okada, S Ogawa, T Sadanaga, H Mitamura - Journal of the American …, 1996 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES.: This clinical study was designed to compare rate-dependent effects of class
III agents on QT prolongation. BACKGROUND.: Clinical data that compare the …