ReviewTrends in cardiovascular medicine2014
Desmosomes and the sodium channel complex: implications for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy and Brugada syndrome.
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- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Post-Mortem Assessment: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
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- RYR1 Pathogenic Variant in a Patient With Overlapping Features of Brugada Syndrome and Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Correlative imaging integrates electrophysiology with three-dimensional murine heart reconstruction to reveal electrical coupling between cell types.Nature cardiovascular research · 2025Article
- Cardiac sympathetic neurons are additional cells affected in genetically determined arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- Machine learning analysis of ARVC informed by sodium channel protein-based interactome networks.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Inherited Arrhythmias in the Pediatric Population: An Updated Overview.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Cardiomyopathies.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Determinants of electrical propagation and propagation block in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2024Article
- Plakophilin 2 gene therapy prevents and rescues arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in a mouse model harboring patient genetics.Nature cardiovascular research · 2023Article
- Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: from Preclinical Models to Genotype-phenotype Correlation and Pathophysiology.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2023Review
- Maturation of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes in a heart-on-a-chip device enables modeling of dilated cardiomyopathy caused by R222Q-SCN5A mutation.Biomaterials · 2023Article
- Omics Analyses of Stromal Cells from ACM Patients Reveal Alterations in Chromatin Organization and Mitochondrial Homeostasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Subepicardial Cardiomyopathy: A Disease Underlying J-Wave Syndromes and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation.Circulation · 2023Article
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- Advances in Ion Channel, Non-Desmosomal Variants and Autophagic Mechanisms Implicated in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy.Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Review
- Gene mutations in comorbidity of epilepsy and arrhythmia.Journal of neurology · 2023Review
- Brugada Syndrome: From Molecular Mechanisms and Genetics to Risk Stratification.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy as a myogenic disease: highlights from cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Mutations in proteins of the desmosome are associated with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC; also referred to as "ARVC" or "ARVD"). Life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias often occur in the concealed phase of the disease before the onset of structural changes. Among the various potential mechanisms for arrhythmogenesis in AC, in this article, we concentrate on the relation between desmosomes and sodium channel function. We review evidence indicating that (1) loss of desmosomal integrity (including mutations or loss of expression of plakophilin-2; PKP2) leads to reduced sodium current (INa), (2) the PKP2-INa relation could be partly consequent to the fact that PKP2 facilitates proper trafficking of proteins to the intercalated disc, and (3) PKP2 mutations can be present in patients diagnosed with Brugada syndrome (BrS), thus supporting the previously proposed notion that AC and BrS are not two completely separate entities, but "bookends" in a continuum of variable sodium current deficiency and structural disease.
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