Study shows key enzyme in fetal heart development also involved in adult heart disease
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified for the first time an enzyme that plays vital roles in both fetal heart development and in causing cardiac hypertrophy - an enlargement of the heart - in adults. The discovery could be used in the future to try to develop new treatments for heart disease.