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Calponin1 inhibits dilated cardiomyopathy development in mice through the εPKC pathway.
International journal of cardiology - 1 May 2014
Lu Dan, Zhang Li, Bao Dan, Lu Yingdong, Zhang Xu, Liu Ning, Ge Wenping, Gao Xiang, Li Hongliang, Zhang Lianfeng
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BACKGROUND: Calponin1 (CNN1) is involved in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction in physiological situation and it also expresses abnormally in a variety of pathological situations. We found that the expression of CNN1 decreased significantly in the heart tissue of a cTnT(R141W) transgenic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) mouse model and an adriamycin (ADR)-induced DCM mouse model, suggesting that CNN1 is...
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