... myocytes in primary culture. Increased proto-oncogene expression has been implicated in the development of cardiac hypertrophy; we therefore wished to examine the effects of overexpression of the c- myc and c- fos proto-oncogenes induced by cell transfection on cell growth. 2. Neonatal rat ventricular...

...- fos and H- ras proto-oncogenes in response to treatment with 3,3′,5-tri-iodothyronine were defined. 2. Adult female Wistar rats were treated with daily subcutaneous injections of 3,3′,5-tri-iodothyronine (50 μg) for 1, 3, 7 or 14 days ( n = 6 in each treatment group) and the results from 3,3′,5-tri...