The inconstancy of the human heart

Miller, Christopher

Christopher Miller is in the Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254, USA.

Nature 379(6568):p 767-768, February 29, 1996.

The improper timing of the human heartbeat can now be connected to the arcana of potassium channel gating. What is more, it turns out that a bizarre kind of ion-channel behaviour is in fact quite conformist.