Etiologies of cardiomyopathy and heart failure

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 266-267

  Towbin, Jeffrey A ^a   Bowles, Karla R ^a   Bowles, Neil E ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART FAILURE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DYSTROPHIN; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS;

EID: 0033051753     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6474     Document Type: Short Survey

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