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Cardiac Fibro-Adipocyte Progenitors Express Desmosome Proteins and Preferentially Differentiate to Adipocytes Upon Deletion of the Desmoplakin Gene
28 Apr 2016
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: Mutations in desmosome proteins cause arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC), a disease characterized by excess myocardial fibroadipocytes. Cellular origin(s) of fibroadipocytes in AC is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To identify the cellular origin of adipocytes in AC. METHODS AND RESULTS: Human and mouse cardiac cells were depleted from myocytes and flow sorted to isolate cells expressing platelet-derived growth...
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