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SUBMITTER: Tangney JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3617425 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tangney Jared R JR Chuang Joyce S JS Janssen Matthew S MS Krishnamurthy Adarsh A Liao Peter P Hoshijima Masahiko M Wu Xin X Meininger Gerald A GA Muthuchamy Mariappan M Zemljic-Harpf Alice A Ross Robert S RS Frank Lawrence R LR McCulloch Andrew D AD Omens Jeffrey H JH
Biophysical journal 20130401 7
Vinculin (Vcl) plays a key structural role in ventricular myocytes that, when disrupted, can lead to contractile dysfunction and dilated cardiomyopathy. To investigate the role of Vcl in myocyte and myocardial function, cardiomyocyte-specific Vcl knockout mice (cVclKO) and littermate control wild-type mice were studied with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tagging before the onset of global ventricular dysfunction. MRI revealed significantly dec ...[more]