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MicroRNAs Diagnostic Performance in Heart Failure: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Reza Parvan, Milad Hosseinpour, Yousef Moradi, Yvan Devaux, Alessandro Cataliotti, Gustavo J.J. da Silva

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Cardiomyocyte-specific overexpression of syndecan-4 in mice results in activation of calcineurin-NFAT signalling and exacerbated cardiac hypertrophy

Lunde IG, Aronsen JM, Melleby AO, Strand ME, Skogestad J, Bendiksen BA, Ahmed MS, Sjaastad I, Attramadal H, Carlson CR, Christensen G.

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Tubulator: automated analysis of cardiomyocyte organelles and proteins in 3D

Frisk M, Norseng PA, Stenersen Espe EK, Louch WE

Tubulator: an automated approach to analysis of t-tubule and dyadic organization in cardiomyocytes

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A rhythmic collaboration: Key articles from IEMR for Norwegian Cardiologists caring for patients with PVCs

Premature ventricular complexes (PVC) is one of the most common ventricular arrhythmias encountered in clinical practice, and although most often benign, may cause debilitating symptoms, risk of left ventricular dysfunction, or life-threatening arrhythmias.

Using MR elastography to measure the hearts stiffness

Smith L, Skulberg V, Zhang L, Sjaastad I, Espe E (2022)

The effects of geometry on stiffness measurements in high-field magnetic resonance elastography: A study on rodent cardiac phantoms

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Signaling protein Syndecan-4 reveals new knowledge of the female heart

Støle TP, Lunde M, Shen X, Martinsen M, Lunde PK, Li J, Lockwood F, Sjaastad I, Louch WE, Aronsen JM, Christensen G, Carlson CR (2022)

The female syndecan-4^-/- heart has smaller cardiomyocytes, augmented insulin/pSer473-Akt/pSer9-GSK-3β signaling, and lowered SCOP, pThr308-Akt/Akt and GLUT4 levels

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Prolonged β-Adrenergic stimulation and heart failure disperses ryanodine receptor clusters

Shen X, van den Brink J, Bergan-Dahl A, Kolstad TR, Norden ES, Hou Y, Laasmaa M, Aguilar-Sanchez Y, Quick AP, Espe EKS, Sjaastad I, Wehrens XHT, Edwards AG, Soeller C, Louch WE

Prolonged β-adrenergic stimulation disperses ryanodine receptor clusters in cardiomyocytes and has implications for heart failure.

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Adipose tissue distribution and cardio-metabolic syndrome in juvenile dermatomyositis

Henriette S Marstein, Birgit N Witczak, Kristin Godang, Thomas Schwartz, Berit Flatø, Jens Bollerslev, Ivar Sjaastad, Helga Sanner.

Adipose tissue distribution is associated with cardio-metabolic alterations in adult patients with juvenile-onset dermatomyositis

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More evidence for exercise at young age in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Exercise training during childhood and adolescence is associated with favorable diastolic function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Dual-receptor targeting of mechanoreceptors to reduce cardiac remodeling

Andreas Romaine, Arne Olav Melleby, Jahedul Alam, Viola Hélène Lobert, Ning Lu, Francesca E. Lockwood, Almira Hasic, Ida G. Lunde, Ivar Sjaastad, Harald Stenmark, Kate M. Herum, Donald Gullberg and Geir Christensen

Integrin α11β1 and syndecan-4 dual receptor ablation attenuate cardiac hypertrophy in the pressure overloaded heart

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