Word: heart
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...gonna be here,” says protagonist Troy Gable in “The Great Buck Howard,” “and if that’s the case, I wanna spend the time I have here doing something that makes my heart race.” Coming from most characters, this statement might sound heartfelt, if somewhat trite. In the context of this film, however, Troy simply sounds insane. Troy (Colin Hanks) is a young law student who drops out of school against his father’s wishes, having decided that writing is his true...
...diagnostic test consists of obtaining a sample of tissue from a heart biopsy and then looking for a specific protein that the researchers found exists in smaller quantities in patients with ARVC, said Angeliki Asimaki, the study’s lead author and a research fellow at the Medical School...
Most of the mutations that cause ARVC are in genes encoding components of a type of cell junctions called “desmosomes,” which are particularly abundant in tissues that experience great mechanical force, such as the heart...
...researchers found that every sample from a patient with ARVC had less plakoglobin and that in other types of heart disease plakoglobin was normal...
Although the test will involve a heart biopsy, the researchers believe that cardiologists and patients will be more willing to undergo the procedure if they believe a clear-cut diagnosis can be made, said Saffitz...