Because cardiomyocyte death causes heart failure, it is important to find the molecules that protect cardiomyocytes from death. The death trap is a useful method to identify cell-protective genes.
Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan. komuro-tky@umin.ac.jp