Cardiac overexpression of ET-1 in mice is sufficient to induce inflammatory cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure and death.
These are the first data to demonstrate that cardiac overexpression of ET-1 is sufficient to cause increased expression of inflammatory cytokines and an inflammatory cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure and death.
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