U-Iowa study helps advance heart-related research

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 11:49 in Biology & Nature

Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells. The study, which also involved Columbia University, was published online Dec. 3 in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

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