The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 6 , Pages 1356-1362.e3 , June 2009

Myocyte apoptosis occurs early during the development of pressure-overload hypertrophy in infant myocardium

  • Yeong-Hoon Choi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Yeong-Hoon Choi, MD, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Department of Cardiac Surgery, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Current address: Heartcenter of the University of Cologne, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne, Kerpener Str 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany.
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  • Douglas B. Cowan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Adrian M. Moran, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Steven D. Colan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Christof Stamm, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Koh Takeuchi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Ingeborg Friehs, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Pedro J. del Nido, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Francis X. McGowan Jr., MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital Boston, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass

Received 1 July 2008 ,Revised 20 November 2008 ,Accepted 22 December 2008.

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 Supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants HL-74734 and HL-66186 (to F.X.M.) and HL-46207 (to P.J.dN.).

PII: S0022-5223(09)00008-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.12.020

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 137, Issue 6 , Pages 1356-1362.e3 , June 2009

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