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SUBMITTER: Huang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4157950 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Haiyan H Joseph Leroy C LC Gurin Michael I MI Thorp Edward B EB Morrow John P JP
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology 20140706
Pathologic cardiac hypertrophy can lead to heart failure, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. SERCA2 is critical for normal cardiac calcium handling and function and SERCA2 mRNA and protein levels are reduced by cardiac hypertrophy. We hypothesized that extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 activation during hypertrophy reduced SERCA2 transcription. Using a neonatal rat ventricular myocyte model of hypertrophy, we found that pharmacologic inhibitors of ERK activation pre ...[more]