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"AKT"ing lessons for stem cells: regulation of cardiac myocyte and progenitor cell proliferation.
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Oct 2007
Sussman Mark
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac development and postnatal growth depend on activation of AKT, but initial strategies to improve myocardial repair using AKT were stymied by undesirable corollary alterations in myocardial structure and function. These unfortunate precedents were based on high-level expression of constitutively activated AKT, predominantly in the cytoplasm of the cell. Based on subsequent studies establishing that...
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