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CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
卷 11, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.530
关键词
action potentials; cardiac voltage-gated ion channel; cardiovascular safety evaluation; electrophysiological techniques
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81521001, 81870182]
- National Key Basic Research Programme [2016YFC1301204, 2020YFC1316700]
Cardiac voltage-gated ion channels are crucial for maintaining normal heart excitability and contraction. Studying VGICs can help identify new targets for heart disease and drug evaluation.
Cardiac voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs) play critical roles in mediating cardiac electrophysiological signals, such as action potentials, to maintain normal heart excitability and contraction. Inherited or acquired alterations in the structure, expression, or function of VGICs, as well as VGIC-related side effects of pharmaceutical drug delivery can result in abnormal cellular electrophysiological processes that induce life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias or even sudden cardiac death. Hence, to reduce possible heart-related risks, VGICs must be acknowledged as important targets in drug discovery and safety studies related to cardiac disease. In this review, we first summarize the development and application of electrophysiological techniques that are employed in cardiac VGIC studies alone or in combination with other techniques such as cryoelectron microscopy, optical imaging and optogenetics. Subsequently, we describe the characteristics, structure, mechanisms, and functions of various well-studied VGICs in ventricular myocytes and analyze their roles in and contributions to both physiological cardiac excitability and inherited cardiac diseases. Finally, we address the implications of the structure and function of ventricular VGICs for drug safety evaluation. In summary, multidisciplinary studies on VGICs help researchers discover potential targets of VGICs and novel VGICs in heart, enrich their knowledge of the properties and functions, determine the operation mechanisms of pathological VGICs, and introduce groundbreaking trends in drug therapy strategies, and drug safety evaluation.
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