Testosterone regulates cardiac calcium homeostasis with enhanced ryanodine receptor 2 expression through activation of TGF-β

Int J Cardiol. 2015:190:11-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.04.116. Epub 2015 Apr 15.

¹ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Division of Cardiology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan; School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
³ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Education and Research, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: yjchen@tmu.edu.tw.

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Keywords: Androgen; Calcium transients; Ryanodine receptor 2; Transforming growth factor β.

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