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ReviewActa pharmacologica Sinica2013

hERG channel function: beyond long QT.

Joseph J Babcock, Min Li

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In one paragraph

Review in Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  4. ERG1A KScientific reports · 2025
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  9. Cisapride induced hypoglycemiaFrontiers in endocrinology · 2022
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  10. KCNH6 Enhanced Hepatic Glucose Metabolism through Mitochondrial CaOxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022
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  11. The ERG1 KFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022
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  12. The ERG1A KDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  19. The EAG Voltage-Dependent KFrontiers in pharmacology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joseph J BabcockDepartment of Neuroscience, High Throughput Biology Center and Johns Hopkins Ion Channel Center (JHICC), School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 733 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Min Li
High Throughput Biology (United States) · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

Johns Hopkins Ion Channel CenterU54MH084691 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LI, MIN · 2008 to 2012
$13.9M
Molecular regulation of calcium-activated (BK) potassium channelsR01GM078579 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LI, MIN · 2007 to 2010
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM078579NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078579NIMH NIH HHS MH084691NIMH NIH HHS U54 MH084691
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To date, research on the human ether-a-go-go related gene (hERG) has focused on this potassium channel's role in cardiac repolarization and Long QT Syndrome (LQTS). However, growing evidence implicates hERG in a diversity of physiologic and pathological processes. Here we discuss these other functions of hERG, particularly their impact on diseases beyond cardiac arrhythmia.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionAnimalsERG1 Potassium ChannelEther-A-Go-Go Potassium ChannelsHumansLong QT SyndromeNeoplasmsOrgan SpecificityERG1 Potassium ChannelEther-A-Go-Go Potassium ChannelsKCNH2 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID23459091
PMCPMC3587915
OpenAlexW2013520512

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