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Desmoplakin Mutations in Cardiac Fibroblasts Cause TGFβ1-Mediated Pathological Fibrogenesis in Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy Via Beclin-1 Regulation.
Circulation research - 11 Sept 2026
Wei Chuanyu, Shou Weinian, Chan Shing-Fai, Saguner Ardan M, Brunckhorst Corinna, Duru Firat, Marine Joseph E, James Cynthia A, Calkins Hugh, Judge Daniel P, Chen Huei-Sheng Vincent
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pathological fibrosis is a major finding in cardiovascular diseases and can result in arrhythmia and heart failure. Desmosome gene mutations can lead to arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Among arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, pathogenic DSP (desmoplakin) variants cause a distinctive cardiomyopathy with excessive cardiac fibrosis that could precede ventricular dysfunction. DSP variants are also linked to...
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- Animals
- Transforming Growth Factor beta1
- Humans
- Fibrosis
- Fibroblasts
