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A lethal perinatal cardiac phenotype resulting from altered integrin function in cardiomyocytes.
Journal of cardiac failure - 1 Aug 2002
Valencik Maria L, Keller Rebecca S, Loftus Joseph C, McDonald John A
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BACKGROUND: Integrins are heterodimeric receptors that couple the extracellular matrix to intracellular signaling pathways and the cyoskeleton. Integrins are strain transducers and candidates for modulators or effectors of cardiac hypertrophy. METHODS: To begin to probe this function, we have transgenically expressed a chimeric protein that alters integrin function in cardiomyocytes. The transgene (Tac-beta(1D))...
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