This artical was about how University of Washington researchers discovered that they can compensate weak muscles bu introducing them to dATP. Traditionally, muscles use ATP as the main source of energy to create contractions. When muscles are introduced to a form of this ATP, dATP, they learned that the muscle will contract faster and with more power than when it used ATP. They also found that the use of dATP will not harm the cell.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130326101618.htm
Nick Saal
I think this is a very interesting article that could help with a lot of patients with a heart problem. I was wondering if this principle of speeding up the heart muscle would be able to be used in a heart attack victim because these attacks are caused by the heart muscle not being able to pump blood correctly. I suppose EMT's would be able to inject the dATP into the heart to get it pumping faster and strong enough until they could get the patient to the hospital to get their heart fixed.
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