Various hypertrophic stimuli induce distinct phenotypes in cardiomyocytes.

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Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by an increase in cell size in the absence of cell division and is accompanied by a number of qualitative and quantitative changes in gene expression. Most forms of hypertrophy in vivo are compensatory or adaptative responses to increased workload resulting from various physiological and/or pathological etiologies. Until severe pathological alterations become apparent,...

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