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Tissue Doppler imaging in Maine Coon cats with a mutation of myosin binding protein C with or without hypertrophy.
Journal of veterinary internal medicine - 1 Jan 2000
MacDonald Kristin A, Kittleson Mark D, Kass Philip H, Meurs Kathryn M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The cardiac myosin binding protein C gene is mutated in Maine Coon (MC) cats with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. HYPOTHESES: Early diastolic mitral annular velocity is incrementally reduced from normal cats to MC cats with only an abnormal genotype to MC cats with abnormal genotype and hypertrophy. ANIMALS: Group 1 consisted of 6 normal domestic shorthair cats, group 2 of 6 MC cats with...
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