心臓のフラクタル構造に関する遺伝的および機能的洞察

Hannah V Meyer1,2, Timothy J W Dawes3,4, Marta Serrani5,6

  • 1Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. hmeyer@cshl.edu.

Nature
|August 21, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

この研究から明らかになったのは 大人の心臓の筋肉のネットワークである トラベキュラが 心臓の機能と 心血管疾患のリスクに 重要な役割を果たすということです トラベキュラの構造と機能に影響を与える重要な遺伝子を 遺伝子解析で特定した.

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