ea0037gp.05.09 | Developmental and paediatric endocrinology | ECE2015
Tsirlis Kostantinos
, Tsarouhas Anastasios
, Aggelidou Eleni
, Kosmidis Efstratios
, Kritis Aristeidis
, Albani Maria
, Kallaras Konstantinos
Introduction: Aldosterone (Aldo) decreases the rate of repolarization in rabbit cardiomyocytes and significantly increases the duration of the monophasic action potential in patients with supraventricular arrhythmias, few minutes after its intravenous administration, implying for a non-genomic action. We have previously found a positive linear regression between left ventricular systole duration and plasma Aldo levels in NZW rabbits. To investigate the veracity of the above fi...