Addictive drugs, arrhythmias, and cardiac inward rectifiers

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Authors	BÉBAROVÁ Markéta HOŘÁKOVÁ Zuzana KULA Roman
Year of publication	2017
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Europace
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/europace/euw071
Field	Physiology
Keywords	Addictive drug; Ethanol; Nicotine; Arrhythmias; Inward rectifier
Description	In many addictive drugs including alcohol and nicotine, proarrhythmic effects were reported. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge in this field (with a focus on the inward rectifier potassium currents) to promote the lacking data and appeal for their completion, thus, to improve understanding of the proarrhythmic potential of addictive drugs.
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