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Hypertrophy and heart failure in mice overexpressing the cardiac sodium-calcium exchanger.
Journal of cardiac failure - 1 May 2007
Roos Kenneth P, Jordan Maria C, Fishbein Michael C, Ritter Matthew R, Friedlander Martin, Chang Helen C, Rahgozar Paymon, Han Tieyan, Garcia Alejandro J, Maclellan W Robb, Ross Robert S, Philipson Kenneth D
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BACKGROUND: The cardiac sodium-calcium exchanger (NCX1) is a key sarcolemmal protein for the maintenance of calcium homeostasis in the heart. Because heart failure is associated with increased expression of NCX1, heterozygous (HET) and homozygous (HOM) transgenic mice overexpressing NCX1 were dev...
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