Table 10.

Real-time RT-PCR analysis of the mRNA expression of repolarization-related ion channel proteins

	Sham	AF-Control	Ad-EGFP	Ad-ACE2	p*	p #	p ♂
Kv4.2	1.00 ± 0.00	0.42 ± 0.26	0.40 ± 0.33	0.81 ± 0.25	<0.001	<0.001	<0.05
Kv4.3	1.00 ± 0.00	0.73 ± 0.28	0.80 ± 0.43	0.92 ± 0.55	0.223	0.364	0.38/0.58
KChIP2	1.00 ± 0.00	0.73 ± 0.34	0.81 ± 0.24	1.09 ± 0.46	0.146	0.310	0.06/0.144
Cav1.2	1.00 ± 0.00	0.54 ± 0.25	0.63 ± 0.23	0.68 ± 0.21	<0.001	0.004	0.239/0.659
GJA1	1.00 ± 0.00	0.56 ± 0.10	0.53 ± 0.15	1.82 ± 0.69	0.045	0.035	<0.001
GJA5	1.00 ± 0.00	2.15 ± 0.80	2.21 ± 0.91	1.58 ± 0.39	0.005	0.004	0.138/0.104

* Sham vs. AF-control; * Sham vs. Ad-EGFP; ^♂ Ad-ACE2 vs. Ad-EGFP (or AF-control); Cav1.2, Sham vs. Ad-ACE2, p = 0.012; GJA5: Sham vs. Ad-ACE2, p = 0.130, n = 7