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Sensing heart stress

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Heart failure and pathological overgrowth of the heart often occur hand in hand. New data on a biomechanical sensor challenge the viewpoint that cardiac hypertrophy causes heart failure (pages 68–75).

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Figure 1: Signaling pathways in the development of cardiac hypertrophy in response to pressure overload.

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