Healthy/Unhealthy (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Healthy/Unhealthy

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Compared to a healthy heart on the left, microscopic views of a heart from a CAP2 mutant mouse on the right identifies an area of heart disease. The electrocardiogram underneath shows that the mutant hearts skip beats during sudden cardiac death.

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Jeffrey Field, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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