Pitt team finds molecule that regulates heart size by using zebrafish screening model

Monday, July 6, 2009 - 06:56 in Biology & Nature

Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described an enzyme inhibitor that allows them to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the developing heart. The findings are described in the advance online version of Nature Chemical Biology...

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