A missing enzyme conveys major heart protection in pre-clinical work

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 17:14 in Health & Medicine

Mice born without a certain enzyme can resist the normal effects of a heart attack and retain nearly normal function in the heart's ventricles and still-oxygenated heart tissue, according to a study by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

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