Cardiac performance: Growth hormone enters the race

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-31

  Saccà, Luigi ^a   Fazio, Serafino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ALPHA; SOMATOMEDIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

HEART FAILURE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; GROWTH HORMONE; HEART; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0030069918     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0196-29     Document Type: Short Survey

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