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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Mech Ageing Dev. 2006 Nov 27;128(1):112–116. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2006.11.023

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Cardiac dSUR function protects heart performance against electrical pacing. Heart failure rate after 30-second high frequency (6Hz) external pacing in one-week old RNAi-mediated knockdown mutants (progeny of UAS-dSUR-RNAi flies with the heart-specific GMH5 driver. Controls (progeny of GMH5 crossed with yw and yw crossed with UAS-dSUR-RNAi lines) show a low rate of heart failure. Conversely, cardiac dSUR knockdown results in significantly elevated levels of pacing-induced heart failure (*<0.01). Adapted from Akasaka et al. (2006).