Search Results - "Da Rocha, André Monteiro"
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Cardiac Kir2.1 and NaV1.5 Channels Traffic Together to the Sarcolemma to Control Excitability
Published in Circulation research (25-05-2018)“…RATIONALE:In cardiomyocytes, NaV1.5 and Kir2.1 channels interact dynamically as part of membrane bound macromolecular complexes. OBJECTIVE:To test whether…”
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SNTA1 gene rescues ion channel function and is antiarrhythmic in cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells from muscular dystrophy patients
Published in eLife (28-06-2022)“…Patients with cardiomyopathy of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) are at risk of developing life-threatening arrhythmias, but the mechanisms are unknown. We…”
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hiPSC-CM Monolayer Maturation State Determines Drug Responsiveness in High Throughput Pro-Arrhythmia Screen
Published in Scientific reports (23-10-2017)“…Human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) offer a novel in vitro platform for pre-clinical cardiotoxicity and pro-arrhythmia…”
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Abnormal myocardial expression of SAP97 is associated with arrhythmogenic risk
Published in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (01-06-2020)“…Synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97) is a scaffolding protein crucial for the functional expression of several cardiac ion channels and therefore proper…”
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Functional cardiac fibroblasts derived from human pluripotent stem cells via second heart field progenitors
Published in Nature communications (20-05-2019)“…Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) play critical roles in heart development, homeostasis, and disease. The limited availability of human CFs from native heart impedes…”
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Loss of glycogen synthase kinase 3 isoforms during murine oocyte growth induces offspring cardiac dysfunction
Published in Biology of reproduction (01-05-2015)“…Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) is a constitutively active serine threonine kinase with 1) two isoforms (GSK3A and GSK3B) that have unique and overlapping…”
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Preventing erosion of X-chromosome inactivation in human embryonic stem cells
Published in Nature communications (06-05-2022)“…X-chromosome inactivation is a paradigm of epigenetic transcriptional regulation. Female human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) often undergo erosion of…”
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Effect of Glucose on 3D Cardiac Microtissues Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Published in Pediatric cardiology (01-12-2017)“…Maternal hyperglycemia is a risk factor for fetal cardiac anomalies. This study aimed to assess the effect of high glucose on human induced pluripotent stem…”
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A multiscale approach for bridging the gap between potency, efficacy, and safety of small molecules directed at membrane proteins
Published in Scientific reports (16-08-2021)“…Membrane proteins constitute a substantial fraction of the human proteome, thus representing a vast source of therapeutic drug targets. Indeed, newly devised…”
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The relationship among HOXA10, estrogen receptor α, progesterone receptor, and progesterone receptor B proteins in rectosigmoid endometriosis: a tissue microarray study
Published in Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) (01-01-2015)“…Very few studies have evaluated the expression of homeobox A10 (HOXA10) and steroid (estrogen and progesterone) receptors exclusively in deep endometriosis…”
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Induced pluripotent stem cells from human placental chorion for perinatal tissue engineering applications
Published in Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods (01-09-2014)“…The reliable derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from a noninvasive autologous source at birth would facilitate the study of patient-specific…”
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Extracellular Matrix–Mediated Maturation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiac Monolayer Structure and Electrophysiological Function
Published in Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology (01-04-2016)“…BACKGROUND—Human pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) monolayers generated to date display an immature embryonic-like functional and…”
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Human perinatal stem cell derived extracellular matrix enables rapid maturation of hiPSC-CM structural and functional phenotypes
Published in Scientific reports (04-11-2020)“…The immature phenotype of human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) is a major limitation to the use of these valuable cells for…”
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Paclitaxel mitigates structural alterations and cardiac conduction system defects in a mouse model of Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome
Published in Cardiovascular research (29-01-2022)“…Abstract Aims Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an ultrarare laminopathy caused by expression of progerin, a lamin A variant, also present at low…”
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Deficient cMyBP-C protein expression during cardiomyocyte differentiation underlies human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cellular phenotypes in disease specific human ES cell derived cardiomyocytes
Published in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology (01-10-2016)“…Abstract Aims Mutations of cardiac sarcomere genes have been identified to cause HCM, but the molecular mechanisms that lead to cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and…”
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Targeted Reactivation of FMR1 Transcription in Fragile X Syndrome Embryonic Stem Cells
Published in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience (15-08-2018)“…Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism. It results from expansion of a CGG nucleotide repeat in the…”
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Exogenous DNA length and quantity affect the transfection rate, but not sperm viability during Sperm-Mediated Gene Transfer
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In vitro model of ischemic heart failure using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Published in JCI insight (24-05-2021)“…Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have been used extensively to model inherited heart diseases, but hiPSC-CM models of…”
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Bipolar Patient–Specific In Vitro Diagnostic Test Reveals Underlying Cardiac Arrhythmia Phenotype Caused by Calcium Channel Genetic Risk Factor
Published in Biological psychiatry global open science (01-05-2024)“…A common genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder is CACNA1C, a gene that is also critical for cardiac rhythm. The impact of CACNA1C mutations on bipolar…”
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386 A novel truncating variant of EBF2 disrupts human adipocyte differentiation in lipodystrophy syndromes: an example of a discovery from a clinical translational pipeline
Published in Journal of clinical and translational science (01-04-2023)“…OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Aiming to better understand the molecular pathogenesis of familial partial lipodystrophy (PL), we initiated whole-exome sequencing for our…”
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