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Too much of a good thing.

H Lee Sweeney
Published in: eLife (2018)
A mutation that causes heart disease in humans increases the number of active myosin heads during muscle contraction in fruit flies, leading to the progressive dysfunction of the flight muscles and heart tube.
Keyphrases
  • multiple sclerosis
  • skeletal muscle
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • binding protein
  • heart failure
  • oxidative stress
  • smooth muscle
  • atrial fibrillation
  • drosophila melanogaster