Myocardial Dysfunction
Glowing hearts shine light on heart disease
Published in Heart Disease Weekly, April 24th, 2005
Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators found that blocking the activity of a single protein, called CaM kinase, in the mouse heart protects against the damaging effects of a heart attack.
The findings, published in the April 2005 issue of Nature Medicine, suggest that medicines designed to block CaM kinase activity may be useful for treating patients with structural heart disease and myocardial dysfunction.
Heart disease remains the No. 1 killer in the United States. Most of that disease...
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