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Los subtipos de receptores beta-adrenérgicos afectan diferencialmente la apoptosis en los miocitos ventriculares de

M Zaugg1, W Xu, E Lucchinetti

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, State University of New York, USA.

Circulation
|July 19, 2000
PubMed
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Los receptores adrenérgicos beta-1 (RA) median la apoptosis inducida por catecolaminas en las células cardíacas, mientras que los RA beta-2 juegan un papel mínimo. Este estudio diferencia las funciones de los subtipos de AR beta-1 y beta-2 en la señalización de la muerte celular cardíaca.

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