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Pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic factors in heart failure

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Apoptosis in Cardiac Biology

Part of the book series: Basic Science for the Cardiologist ((BASC,volume 5))

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Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a final common pathway of different etiologies that results in a compensatory hypertrophy of myocytes which increase their size and the expression of contractile and other proteins normally expressed only during foetal development (1).

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    Laura Agnoletti M.D., Laura Comini M.D., Giuseppina Gaia M.D., Salvatore Curello M.D. & Roberto Ferrari M.D.

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Agnoletti, L., Comini, L., Gaia, G., Curello, S., Ferrari, R. (2000). Pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic factors in heart failure. In: Schunkert, H., Riegger, G.A.J. (eds) Apoptosis in Cardiac Biology. Basic Science for the Cardiologist, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-38143-5_17

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