Desmin filaments and cardiac disease: Establishing causality

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 8, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Wang, Xuejun ^a,b   Osinska, Hanna ^a   Gerdes, A Martin ^b   Robbins, Jeffrey ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Intermediate filaments; Protein aggregation; Ultrastructure; B crystallin

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; DESMIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIASTOLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; TRANSGENICS;

EID: 0036951869     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jcaf.2002.129279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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