Remodelación ventricular izquierda en ratones transgénicos con sobreexpresión restringida cardíaca del factor de

N Sivasubramanian1, M L Coker, K M Kurrelmeyer

  • 1Winters Center for Heart Failure Research, Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Circulation
|August 15, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

El factor de necrosis tumoral (TNF) causa la remodelación del corazón al alterar el equilibrio de la metaloproteinasa de matriz (MMP) y el inhibidor tisular de las metaloproteinasas (TIMP). Este estudio revela cómo los cambios inducidos por el TNF en la actividad de MMP / TIMP afectan el contenido de colágeno miocárdico con el tiempo.

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