Peptide Peps Up a Failing Heart (IMAGE)

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Peptide Peps Up a Failing Heart

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These are representative images of Masson trichrome-stained murine heart sections from nontransgenic and TgβARKrgs hearts 4 weeks after sham or TAC surgery. Scale bar, 2000 mm. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 22, 2016 issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.M. Schumacher at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, and colleagues was titled, "A peptide of the RGS domain of GRK2 binds and inhibits Gαq to suppress pathological cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction."

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S.M. Schumacher <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2016)

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