Simvastatin induces regression of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis and improves cardiac function in a transgenic rabbit model of human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Published in Circulation on July 17, 2001

Authors

R Patel1, S F Nagueh, N Tsybouleva, M Abdellatif, S Lutucuta, H A Kopelen, M A Quinones, W A Zoghbi, M L Entman, R Roberts, A J Marian

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The DeBakey Heart Center, The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

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