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Tissue-resident Sca1+ PDGFRα+ mesenchymal progenitors are the cellular source of fibrofatty infiltration in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
2013-06-19
Abstract excerpt
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) is a disease of the heart involving myocardial dystrophy leading to fibrofatty scarring of the myocardium and is associated with an increased risk of both ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. It often affects the right ventricle but may also involve the left. Although there has been significant progress in understanding the role of underlying desmosomal genetic defec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f16a15e7-16fe-5a4c-a47b-adbc7a64e89e
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- 10.12688/f1000research.2-141.v1
