Article
Manipulating the contractile apparatus: genetically defined animal models of cardiovascular disease.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Jan 2001
Dalloz F, Osinska H, Robbins J
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Carrier Proteins
- Contractile Proteins
- Disease Models, Animal
- Forecasting
- Gene Targeting
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
