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Stunned myocardium: a disease of the myofilaments

  • Focussed Issue: Myocardial Stunning
  • Excitation-Contraction Coupling
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  1. Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Room 844, Ross Building 720 Rutland Avenue, 21205, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    E. Marban M.D. Ph. D. & W. D. Gao

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Supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HL44065 to E.M.), and the American Heart Association (International Research Followship to W.D.G.).

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Marban, E., Gao, W.D. Stunned myocardium: a disease of the myofilaments. Basic Res Cardiol 90, 269–272 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00797896

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