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European Heart Journal 1999 20(22):1619-1629; doi:10.1053/euhj.1999.1548
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Cardiac myocyte apoptosis

S.A. Cookf1 and P.A. Poole-Wilson

National Heart and Lung Institute Division, Imperial College School of Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London, U.K.

Received December 1, 1998; accepted February 3, 1999

Key Words: Apoptosis, TUNEL, caspase, Bcl-2, mitogen-activated protein kinases.

f1 Correspondence: Dr Stuart Cook, NHLI Division (Cardiac Medicine), Imperial College School of Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, U.K.

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