A genetic abnormality of cardiac myocytes from the blind mutant (RC) chick heart: abnormalities of cardiac structure and choline transport.

doi:10.1007/BF00788671

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A genetic abnormality of cardiac myocytes from the blind mutant (RC) chick heart: abnormalities of cardiac structure and choline transport.

Basic research in cardiology - 1 Jan 2000

Rabkin S W, Cheng K M

Abstract excerpt

A new genetic cardiomyopathy was identified in a blind mutant avian strain. Cardiac myocytes were cultured from 7-day-old chick embryos from Rhode Island Red chickens and from another strain of this species that has been identified to have several abnormalities, the most striking of which is blin...

Topics

Animals
Biological Transport, Active
Blindness
Cardiomyopathies
Chick Embryo
Choline
Heart Defects, Congenital
Mutation
Myocardium

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