Regulation of the fibroblast growth factor-2 axis in cardiac cells, effects on cardioprotection and cardiac muscle cell growth

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Treatments have primarily focussed on the vascular system and shown only moderate 10-20% reductions on major outcomes such as death or myocardial infarction. The research described in this thesis is focussed on developing and testing mu...

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Main Author: Sheikh, Farah
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2109