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Cardiac remodeling in the mouse model of Marfan syndrome develops into two distinctive phenotypes.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 15 Jan 2016
Tae Hyun-Jin, Petrashevskaya Natalia, Marshall Shannon, Krawczyk Melissa, Talan Mark
Abstract excerpt
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a systemic disorder of connective tissue caused by mutations in fibrillin-1. Cardiac dysfunction in MFS has not been characterized halting the development of therapies of cardiac complication in MFS. We aimed to study the age-dependent cardiac remodeling in the mouse model of MFS FbnC1039G+/- mouse [Marfan heterozygous (HT) mouse] and its association with valvular regurgitation. Marfan HT...
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