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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2006

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: moving toward mechanism.

Calum A MacRae, Walter Birchmeier, Ludwig Thierfelder

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cardiac phenotypes in LMNA mutations.Current opinion in cardiology · 2025
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  7. Structure, function, and regulation of desmosomes.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2013
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  12. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.Heart failure clinics · 2010
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  13. Interplay of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion and canonical Wnt signaling.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Calum A MacRaeCardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Walter Birchmeier
Ludwig Thierfelder

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in genes encoding desmosomal proteins have been identified as the major cause of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVC), in which the right ventricle is "replaced" by fibrofatty tissue, resulting in lethal arrhythmias. In this issue of the JCI, Garcia-Gras et al. demonstrate that cardiac-specific loss of the desmosomal protein desmoplakin is sufficient to cause nuclear translocation of plakoglobin, upregulation of adipogenic genes in vitro, and a shift from a cardiomyocyte to an adipocyte cell fate in vivo (see the related article beginning on page 2012). This evidence for potential Wnt/beta-catenin signaling defects sets the scene for a comprehensive exploration of the contributions of this pathway to the pathophysiology of ARVC, not only through perturbation of cardiac patterning and development, but also through effects on myocardial differentiation and physiology.

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AnimalsArrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasiabeta CateninDesmoplakinsgamma CateninGene Expression RegulationPlakophilinsSignal TransductionWnt Proteinsbeta CateninDesmoplakinsgamma CateninPlakophilinsWnt Proteins

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PMID16823481
PMCPMC1483166

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