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Michael C. Sanguinetti

Michael C. Sanguinetti

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Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
38028
World Ranking
14396
National Ranking
7280

Overview

Michael C. Sanguinetti is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work touching on subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work revolves around main topics including cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, ion channel regulation and function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, ECG monitoring and analysis, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, and marine toxins and detection methods.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael C. Sanguinetti include the following:

  • Heritable arrhythmias associated with abnormal function of cardiac potassium channels, 2020, Cardiovascular Research
  • Physiological Functions, Biophysical Properties, and Regulation of KCNQ1 (KV7.1) Potassium Channels, 2021, Advances in experimental medicine and biology
  • Voltage-gated potassium channels (Kv) in GtoPdb v.2023.1, 2023, IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Voltage-gated potassium channels (Kv) in GtoPdb v.2021.3, 2021, IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE
  • Binding of RPR260243 at the intracellular side of the hERG1 channel pore domain slows closure of the helix bundle crossing gate, 2023, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Michael C. Sanguinetti frequently co-authors with the following researchers:

  • Bernard Attali
  • M. Hunter Giese
  • Stephan Grissmer
  • George A. Gutman
  • Lily Yeh Jan

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, Cardiovascular Research, Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • A mechanistic link between an inherited and an acquird cardiac arrthytmia: HERG encodes the IKr potassium channel

    Michael C Sanguinetti;Changan Jiang;Mark E Curran;Mark T Keating

  • Two components of cardiac delayed rectifier K+ current. Differential sensitivity to block by class III antiarrhythmic agents.

    Michael C. Sanguinetti;Nancy K. Jurkiewicz

  • Coassembly of K(V)LQT1 and minK (IsK) proteins to form cardiac I(Ks) potassium channel.

    Sanguinetti Mc;Curran Me;Zou A;Shen J

  • Ca(V)1.2 calcium channel dysfunction causes a multisystem disorder including arrhythmia and autism.

    Igor Splawski;Katherine W. Timothy;Leah M. Sharpe;Niels Decher

  • hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia

    Michael C. Sanguinetti;Martin Tristani-Firouzi

  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias.

    Mark T. Keating;Michael C. Sanguinetti

  • International Union of Pharmacology. LIII. Nomenclature and Molecular Relationships of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

    Aguan D. Wei;George A. Gutman;Richard W Aldrich;K. George Chandy

  • Loss-of-Function Mutations in the Cardiac Calcium Channel Underlie a New Clinical Entity Characterized by ST-Segment Elevation, Short QT Intervals, and Sudden Cardiac Death

    Charles Antzelevitch;Guido D. Pollevick;Jonathan M. Cordeiro;Oscar Casis

  • A structural basis for drug-induced long QT syndrome

    John S. Mitcheson;Jun Chen;Monica Lin;Chris Culberson

  • Mutations in the hminK gene cause long QT syndrome and suppress IKs function.

    Igor Splawski;Martin Tristani-Firouzi;Michael H. Lehmann;Michael C. Sanguinetti

  • Severe arrhythmia disorder caused by cardiac L-type calcium channel mutations

    Igor Splawski;Katherine W. Timothy;Katherine W. Timothy;Niels Decher;Pradeep Kumar

  • Rate-dependent prolongation of cardiac action potentials by a methanesulfonanilide class III antiarrhythmic agent. Specific block of rapidly activating delayed rectifier K+ current by dofetilide.

    Nancy K. Jurkiewicz;Michael C. Sanguinetti

  • Voltage-dependent block of calcium channel current in the calf cardiac Purkinje fiber by dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists.

    M C Sanguinetti;R S Kass

  • International Union of Pharmacology. XLI. Compendium of voltage-gated ion channels : potassium channels

    George A. Gutman;K. George Chandy;John P. Adelman;Jayashree Aiyar

  • Spectrum of HERG K+-channel dysfunction in an inherited cardiac arrhythmia

    Michael C. Sanguinetti;Mark E. Curran;Peter S. Spector;Mark T. Keating

  • Fast inactivation causes rectification of the IKr channel.

    Peter S. Spector;Mark E. Curran;Anruo Zou;Mark T. Keating

  • Compound mutations: a common cause of severe long-QT syndrome.

    Peter Westenskow;Igor Splawski;Katherine W. Timothy;Mark T. Keating

  • Genetically defined therapy of inherited long-QT syndrome. Correction of abnormal repolarization by potassium.

    Steve J. Compton;Robert L. Lux;Matthew R. Ramsey;Katie R. Strelich

  • Drug-induced torsades de pointes and implications for drug development.

    Robert R. Fenichel;Marek Malik;Charles Antzelevitch;Michael Sanguinetti

  • Predicting drug-hERG channel interactions that cause acquired long QT syndrome.

    Michael C. Sanguinetti;John S. Mitcheson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark T. Keating
Mark T. Keating Yarrow Biotechnology
Robert S. Kass
Robert S. Kass Columbia University
Timothy J. Kamp
Timothy J. Kamp University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard J. Miller
Richard J. Miller Northwestern University
Florian Lang
Florian Lang University of Tübingen
Michael Pusch
Michael Pusch National Research Council (CNR)
George A. Gutman
George A. Gutman University of California, Irvine
Michel Lazdunski
Michel Lazdunski Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bernardo Rudy
Bernardo Rudy New York University
Lily Yeh Jan
Lily Yeh Jan University of California, San Francisco

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