In an accompanying commentary, Cathy Hatcher and Craig Basson from Weill Medical College of Cornell University discuss the influence of a soy diet on heart disease and highlight how in the future, researchers using animal models for the study of human disease will have to consider the diet fed to their animals and how it may influence the manifestation of a disease in animals of various genetic backgrounds.
TITLE: Soy diet worsens heart disease in mice
AUTHOR CONTACT:
Leslie A. Leinwand
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Phone: 303-492-7606
Fax: 303-492-8907
E-mail: Leslie.Leinwand@colorado.edu.
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ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY:
TITLE: Taking a bite out of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: soy diet and disease
AUTHOR CONTACT:
Craig T. Basson
Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Phone: 212-746-2201
Fax: 212-746-2222
E-mail: ctbasson@med.cornell.edu.
View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=27455
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