Heart failure research continues to reveal the flaws in nature's unintelligent design

Circulation

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 2891-2893

  Sawyer, Douglas B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorials; Genes; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR;

DNA FLANKING REGION; EDITORIAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RESEARCH; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SYSTOLE;

EID: 27744462546     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.578153     Document Type: Editorial

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