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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2012 Jun 8;110(12):1646–1660. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.111.259754

Figure 6. Strategies of improving calcium handling and SR Ca-content in heart failure.

Figure 6

These strategies have focused pharmacologically on inhibiting the Na/K ATPase which results in increased intracellular Ca2+ and more recently on stabilizing the Ryanodine Receptor in resulting in decreased SR Ca2+ leak. Gene editing techniques have focused on enhancing SERCA2a’s activity by either increasing the level of SERCA2a or altering the expression of its partners.