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Apoptosis in cardiac disease--what is it--how does it occur
1Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
|March 28, 2002
Abstract:
This review will present a summary of a description of apoptotic pathways in the heart, followed by ways to measure it and the experimental and clinical evidence for the role of apoptosis in cardiac disease. An evaluation of the effectiveness of pharmacological and other therapeutic interventions in the prevention of apoptosis in the context of cardiac disease will also be presented.