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Still, women may have a long way to go at a school that, half a century ago, first introduced female students as a "ten-year experiment." Dr. Judith K. Gwathmey, associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, says one of her male colleagues jokingly responded to the statistics by asking. "What is Harvard coming...
...while female representation on the faculty will not near the student numbers for some time, Gwathmey hope for the future...
Heart muscle contracts when muscle filaments slide by each other, thereby shortening the muscle, and form cross-bridges to "lock" the filaments in place. Gwathmey reports in a recent issue of Circulation that a deficient heart possesses the same ability to contract as a normal muscle, but that the rate of forming cross-bridges is decreased...
...Gwathmey said she hopes the results of her research will be used to combat the effects of heart disease. "The research is definitely cutting edge," she said...
Associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology Judith K. Gwathmey and colleagues at the school's cardiovascular diseases laboratories attribute heart failure to decreased response to stimulation rather than to an impaired ability to contract, the previously accepted cause...