Usefulness of running wheel for detection of congestive heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy mouse model.

BACKGROUND: Inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a progressive disease that often results in death from congestive heart failure (CHF) or sudden cardiac death (SCD). Mouse models with human DCM mutation are useful to investigate the developmental mechanisms of CHF and SCD, but knowledge of the...

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Main Authors: Masami Sugihara, Fuminori Odagiri, Takeshi Suzuki, Takashi Murayama, Yuji Nakazato, Kana Unuma, Ken-ichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Daida, Takashi Sakurai, Sachio Morimoto, Nagomi Kurebayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3561288?pdf=render