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Unloaded rat hearts in vivo express a hypertrophic phenotype of cardiac repolarization.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Nov 2008
Schwoerer Alexander Peter, Melnychenko Ivan, Goltz Diane, Hedinger Nils, Broichhausen Irene, El-Armouche Ali, Eschenhagen Thomas, Volk Tilmann, Ehmke Heimo
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Cardiac unloading with left ventricular assist devices is increasingly used to treat patients with severe heart failure. Unloading has been shown to improve systolic and diastolic function, but its impact on the repolarization of left ventricular myocytes is not known. Unloaded hearts exhibit similar patterns of gene expression as hearts subjected to an increased hemodynamic load. We therefore hypothesized that...
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