Targeted deletion of Dicer in the heart leads to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of human morbidity and mortality. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the most common form of cardiomyopathy associated with heart failure. Here, we report that cardiac-specific knockout of Dicer, a gene encoding a RNase III endonuclease essential for microRNA...

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Main Authors: Chen, Jian-Fu, Murchison, Elizabeth P., Tang, Ruhang, Callis, Thomas E., Tatsuguchi, Mariko, Deng, Zhongliang, Rojas, Mauricio, Hammond, Scott M., Schneider, Michael D., Selzman, Craig H., Meissner, Gerhard, Patterson, Cam, Hannon, Gregory J., Wang, Da-Zhi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2008
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542870/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18256189
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710228105
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