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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:a paradigm for myocardial energy depletion.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 May 2003
Ashrafian Houman, Redwood Charles, Blair Edward, Watkins Hugh
Abstract excerpt
Genetic analysis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a mendelian form of cardiac hypertrophy, indicates that the primary defect is in sarcomeric function. However, the initial proposal that depressed myocardial contraction leads to a 'compensatory' hypertrophy has proven inconsistent with laboratory and clinical evidence. Drawing on observations of mutant contractile protein function, together with mouse models...
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