With fibrosis of the cardiac skeleton there is calcification at the base of the aortic valve and damage to the His bundle as it perforates the right fibrous trigone. Finally there is decreased ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

Did you know broken heart syndrome is real? Super stressful events, like a death or a divorce, can trigger chest pain. Spooky but true. If doctors removed your ticker, it would keep beating for a ...

In both affected siblings, an accumulation of amorphous material immunoreactive for desmin, dystrophin and vimentin was observed in the cytoplasm of the skeletal muscle cells. An uncle and the ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Figure 1: Test statistic curves obtained in QTL analyses of chromosome 2 in a Wild Boar/Large White intercross.