Cardiovascular Gene Therapy
Congestive Heart Failure Might be Candidate for Gene Therapy
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 30th, 2000
"Genetic modulation of ventricular function may offer a novel therapeutic strategy for patients with congestive heart failure," wrote A.S. Shah and colleagues, Duke University, Medical Center, North Carolina, USA. "Myocardial overexpression of beta(2)-adrenergic receptors (beta(2)ARs) has been shown to enhance contractility in transgenic mice and reverse signaling abnormalities found in failing cardiomyocytes in culture."
Shah et al. published...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2000-03-30)
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