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Zebrafish Offer Clues to a Heart Gone Wrong

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Zebrafish Offer Clues to a Heart Gone Wrong

image: A healthy zebrafish model (top) and a a zebrafish model of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (bottom) show cardiomegaly or enlarged heart, wall thinning, and chamber dilatation in early adulthood. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 11, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. A. Asimaki at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Identification of a New Modulator of the Intercalated Disc in a Zebrafish Model of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy." view more 

Credit: Asimaki <i>et al.</i>, <i>Science Translational Medicine</i> 2014


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