Department of Physiology & Cell BiologyBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory

Basic Cardiac Research in FOHS, BGU

Yoram Etzion, MD, PhD

Various methods to model cardiac pathology and to evaluate structure & function

WT akt2-/-

LV

RV

LV

RV

Infarcted LV

RV

Sinus rhythm

S4S3

1mV

500 ms

S2

Sustained VT

Stimulation Protocol

Human Cardiac geneticsRuti Parvari & Yoram Etzion

Identified Gene of Interest

Manipulation of the Gene of interest in the rodent heart

Evaluation of the function of theGene of interest in rodent heart