Article
Desmoplakin mutations in cardiac fibroblasts cause TGFβ1-mediated pathological fibrogenesis in desmoplakin cardiomyopathy via beclin-1 regulation
2024-09-11
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> 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 (ACM). Among ACM, pathogenic desmoplakin ( DSP ) variants cause a distinctive cardiomyopathy with excessive cardiac fibrosis that could precede ventricular dysfunction. DSP variants are also linked to other fibr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a823ef99-4bac-593c-bd9b-b9d6ba8e16fc
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.09.09.612149
