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Myocyte Autophagy in Heart Disease: Friend or Foe?
26 Nov 2007
Abstract excerpt
In the setting of hemodynamic stress, such as occurs in hypertension or following myocardial infarction, the heart undergoes a compensatory hypertrophic growth response. Left unchecked, this hypertrophic response triggers myocyte death, ventricular dilation, diminished contractile performance, and a clinical syndrome of heart failure. For some years, autophagy has been implicated in heart failure. More recently,...
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