sub:provenance { sub:assertiondcterms:description "[We have taken advantage of the hamster strain CHF147 that displays progressive cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure to test whether stimulation of a hypertrophic pathway could delay the process of dilatation.Six month old CHF147 hamsters were treated with IGF-1 so that we could compare the efficacy of systemic administration of human recombinant IGF-1 protein (rh IGF-1) at low dose to that of direct myocardial injections of a plasmid DNA containing IGF-1 cDNA (pCMV-IGF1).IGF-1 treatment did not induce a significant variation of ventricle mass, but preserved left ventricular (LV) wall thickness and delayed dilatation of cardiac cavities when compared to non-treated hamsters.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en ; wi:evidencedgn-void:source_evidence_literature ; sio:SIO_000772miriam-pubmed:15611844 ; prov:wasDerivedFromdgn-void:BEFREE ; prov:wasGeneratedByeco:ECO_0000203 . dgn-void:BEFREEpav:importedOn "2017-02-19"^^xsd:date . dgn-void:source_evidence_literatureaeco:ECO_0000212 ; rdfs:comment "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en ; rdfs:label "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . }