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The weakness of a big heart

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A well-known cell cycle regulator, p27KIP1, and protein kinase CK2-α´ mediate pathologic growth of cardiomyocytes. The findings have potential implications for the development of new treatment approaches to cardiac hypertrophy (pages 315–324).

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Figure 1: Regulation of hypertrophic responses in the adult cardiomyocyte by p27 and CK2-α′.

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  1. Thomas Force is in the Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, College Building, Rm. 316, 1025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA. thomas.force@jefferson.edu,

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