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Sex dimorphisms of crossbridge cycling kinetics in transgenic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mice.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Jul 2016
Birch Camille L, Behunin Samantha M, Lopez-Pier Marissa A, Danilo Christiane, Lipovka Yulia, Saripalli Chandra, Granzier Henk, Konhilas John P
Abstract excerpt
Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease of the sarcomere and may lead to hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive, and/or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, or sudden cardiac death. We hypothesized that hearts from transgenic HCM mice harboring a mutant myosin heavy chain increase the energetic cost of contraction in a sex-specific manner. To do this, we assessed Ca(2+) sensitivity...
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