
Center for Physiology and Pharmacology (Division of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology)
Position: Associate Professor
T +43 1 40160 31230
karlheinz.hilber@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Arrhythmias, Cardiac; Calcium Channels, L-Type; Cardiac Electrophysiology; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated; Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne; Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels
Research group(s)
- Muscle physiology
Head: Karlheinz Hilber
Research Area: Skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology
Members:
Research interests
- Cardiac ion channel impairments in the diseased heart
- Effects of drugs on cardiac ion channels
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
whole cell patch clamp technique, isolation of cardiomyocytes from neonatal and adult mouse and guinea pig hearts, human induced pluripotent stem cell- derived cardiomyocytes, muscular dystrophy mouse models, standard biochemistry and molecular biology
Members of this research group have access to a cell culture, a standard biochemistry and molecular biology lab, and a patch clamp rig.
Grants
- Cardiac calcium channel abnormalities in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (2017)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator - Voltage-gated ion channel dysfunction in dystrophic muscle (2010)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator - Cardiogenic substances (2009)
Source of Funding: aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice), PRIZE
Principal Investigator - Ion channel plasticity in transforming skeletal muscle (2006)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator - Na channels in fast and slow skeletal muscle (2001)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Stand-Alone Projects
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Rubi, L. et al., 2018. Calcium current properties in dystrophin�deficient ventricular cardiomyocytes from aged mdx mice. Physiological Reports, 6(1), p.e13567. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13567.
- Koenig, X. & Hilber, K., 2015. The Anti-Addiction Drug Ibogaine and the Heart: A Delicate Relation. Molecules, 20(2), pp.2208-2228. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules20022208.
- Koenig, X. et al., 2013. Enhanced currents through L-type calcium channels in cardiomyocytes disturb the electrophysiology of the dystrophic heart. AJP: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 306(4), pp.H564-H573. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00441.2013.
- Koenig, X. et al., 2012. Anti-addiction drug ibogaine inhibits hERG channels: a cardiac arrhythmia risk. Addiction Biology, 19(2), pp.237-239. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00447.x.
- Koenig, X. et al., 2011. Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Dysfunction Precedes Cardiomyopathy Development in the Dystrophic Heart M. Rota, ed. PLoS ONE, 6(5), p.e20300. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020300.