Chronic treatment with carvedilol improves ventricular function and reduces myocyte apoptosis in an animal model of heart failure.

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Published in BMC Physiol on July 21, 2003

Authors

Chukwuka C Okafor1, Cynthia Perreault-Micale, Roger J Hajjar, Djamel Lebeche, Klara Skiroman, George Jabbour, Angelia A Doye, Michael X Lee, Nancy Laste, Judith K Gwathmey

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1: Boston University Medical Center, Boston, USA. okaforc1@mail.nih.gov

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