Bad brakes

(Harvard Medical School) A study in human and mouse heart cells identifies a faulty molecular brake in the most common form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes and the most common genetic disease of the heart The faulty brake, found about a quarter of all genetic mutations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, interferes with the heart muscle's ability to contract and relax,.Treatment with a chemical compound successfully restores normal contractility and relaxation in human heart cells
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news