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Shortening of the elastic tandem immunoglobulin segment of titin leads to diastolic dysfunction.
Circulation - 2 Jul 2013
Chung Charles S, Hutchinson Kirk R, Methawasin Mei, Saripalli Chandra, Smith John E, Hidalgo Carlos G, Luo Xiuju, Labeit Siegfried, Guo Caiying, Granzier Henk L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Diastolic dysfunction is a poorly understood but clinically pervasive syndrome that is characterized by increased diastolic stiffness. Titin is the main determinant of cellular passive stiffness. However, the physiological role that the tandem immunoglobulin (Ig) segment of titin plays in stiffness generation and whether shortening this segment is sufficient to cause diastolic dysfunction need to be...
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