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Smooth muscle cell-extrinsic vascular spasm arises from cardiomyocyte degeneration in sarcoglycan-deficient cardiomyopathy.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 2004
Wheeler Matthew T, Allikian Michael J, Heydemann Ahlke, Hadhazy Michele, Zarnegar Sara, McNally Elizabeth M
Abstract excerpt
Vascular spasm is a poorly understood but critical biomedical process because it can acutely reduce blood supply and tissue oxygenation. Cardiomyopathy in mice lacking gamma-sarcoglycan or delta-sarcoglycan is characterized by focal damage. In the heart, sarcoglycan gene mutations produce regional defects in membrane permeability and focal degeneration, and it was hypothesized that vascular spasm was responsible...
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