The challenge of molecular medicine: Complexity versus Occam's razor

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 801-803

  Sobie, Eric A ^a,b   Guatimosim, Silvia ^a   Song, Long Sheng ^a   Lederer, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); PHOSPHOLAMBAN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYBERNETICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOME; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MEDICINE; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ANIMAL; CARDIOMEGALY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MICE;

EID: 0037364367     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200318153     Document Type: Note

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