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Tension-Time Integrals and Genetic Cardiomyopathy: The Force Is with You.
Cell - 19 May 2016
Dorn Gerald W
Abstract excerpt
Hundreds of different mutations in genes encoding a few dozen sarcomeric proteins cause two reciprocal human disease phenotypes, hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy. How molecular dysfunction evokes different patterns of cardiac remodeling is unclear. Davis et al. describe a biophysical metric of cardiomyocyte function, the force-time integral, which predicts disease phenotype.
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