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Long-distance affair with adrenal GRK2 hangs up heart failure

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Modulation of events regulated by α2-adrenergic receptors counteracts heart failure by restoring proper signaling from the adrenal gland to the heart (pages 315–323).

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Figure 1: Analogy between a G protein–coupled receptor module and a conventional stereo-audio amplifier.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Stephen B. Liggett is in the Cardiopulmonary Genomics Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. sligg001@umaryland.edu,

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