Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cardiac injury predisposes patients to heart failure (HF), and ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (VT/VF). Development of HF and VT/VF after cardiac injury is tightly linked to sympathetic neural remodeling. Although several medications targeting cardiac sympathetic excess reduce mortality following cardiac injury, significant shortcomings of these drugs include off-target effects, limited efficacy, and focus on downstream consequences of neural remodeling such as excess catecholamine release, rather than preventing it upstream. In this proposal, we build on strong p
