Article
Troponin T and beta-myosin mutations have distinct cardiac functional effects in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients without hypertrophy.
Cardiovascular research - 1 Mar 2008
Revera Miriam, van der Merwe Lize, Heradien Marshall, Goosen Althea, Corfield Valerie A, Brink Paul A, Moolman-Smook Johanna C
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: The validity of genotype:phenotype correlation studies in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has recently been questioned, yet animal models and in vitro studies suggest distinct effects for different mutations. The aims of this study were to investigate whether distinct HCM-mutations have different consequences for cardiac structure and function in the absence of the confounding effects of...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Adult
- Animals
- Calcium Signaling
- Cardiac Myosins
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Echocardiography, Doppler
- Female
- Genotype
- Heart Ventricles
