Insulin-like growth factor 1 myocardial expression decreases in chronic alcohol consumption.

Francesc Borrisser-PairóEmilia AntúnezEster TobíasJoaquim Fernández-Solà

Published in: Regenerative medicine research (2013)

Chronic alcohol consumption significantly reduces IGF-1 myocardial expression. This decrease induced by alcohol is partially compensated in the presence of structural myocardial damage.

Keyphrases

alcohol consumption
poor prognosis
left ventricular
binding protein
growth hormone
heart failure
signaling pathway
atrial fibrillation