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Mice with cardiomyocyte-specific disruption of the endothelin-1 gene are resistant to hyperthyroid cardiac hypertrophy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Feb 2004
Shohet Ralph V, Kisanuki Yaz Y, Zhao Xiao-Song, Siddiquee Zakir, Franco Fatima, Yanagisawa Masashi
Abstract excerpt
Endothelin 1 (ET-1), a potent vasoconstrictor peptide expressed by endothelium, is also produced in the heart in response to a variety of stresses. It induces hypertrophy in cultured cardiac myocytes but only at concentrations far greater than those found in plasma. We tested whether ET-1 generat...
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