Population
cDNA fragments of erg homologues from guinea pig, rabbit, human, dog, and rat; isolated rat ventricular…
Design
Preclinical
Key result
erg mRNA is uniformly expressed in the hearts of multiple species and correlates with the presence of an E-4031-sensitive IKr-like current in rat ventricular myocytes.
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Supports erg-IKr molecular link across species; leaves open clinical translation to human arrhythmias.
The study demonstrates that erg mRNA is widely expressed in the hearts of multiple species and correlates with the presence of an IKr-like current, strengthening the link between erg and native IKr.
Wymore et al. (1997) studied this question. erg mRNA expression was evaluated on Presence and distribution of erg mRNA and IKr-like current. erg mRNA is uniformly expressed in the hearts of multiple species and correlates with the presence of an E-4031-sensitive IKr-like current in rat ventricular myocytes.