Manipulating the contractile apparatus: genetically defined animal models of cardiovascular disease.

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Within the last 10 years via gene targeting and transgenesis, numerous models of cardiovascular disease have been established and used to determine if a protein's presence or absence causes cardiovascular disease. By affecting the heart's protein complement in a defined manner, the function of the different mutated proteins or protein isoforms present in the contractile apparatus can be determined and pathogenic...

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