Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Modeling of Friedreich ataxia-related iron overloading cardiomyopathy using patient-specific-induced pluripotent stem cells

Modeling of Friedreich ataxia-related iron overloading cardiomyopathy using patient-specific-induced pluripotent stem cells. Yee-Ki Lee, Philip Wing-Lok Ho, Revital Schick, Yee-Man Lau, Wing-Hon Lai, Ting Zhou, Yanhua Li, Kwong-Man Ng, Shu-Leung HO, Miguel Angel Esteban,
Ofer Binah, Hung-Fat Tse, Chung-Wah Siu; Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, December 2013

Keywords: Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, frataxin, FRDA-cardiac cellular models, iron homeostasis, calcium homeostasis, contractile force.