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Myostatin Activation in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure and After Mechanical Unloading

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2010

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Isaac George, Lawrence T. Bish, Gayathri Kamalakkannan, Christopher M. Petrilli, Mehmet C. Oz, Yoshifumi Naka, H. Lee Sweeney, Simon Maybaum
European Journal of Heart Failure

Abstract

This is the first clinical evidence that myostatin activation is increased in HF. Myostatin may affect cardiac hypertrophy and may mediate regression of cellular hypertrophy after mechanical unloading.

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