Terapia génica para la taquicardia ventricular polimórfica catecolaminergica mediante la inhibición de la quinasa II

Vassilios J Bezzerides1, Ana Caballero1, Suya Wang1

  • 1Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Research and Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias Programs, Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA (V.J.B., A.C., S.W., Y.A., R.J.H., F.L., D.A.H.-W., K.D.C., D.Z., D.J.A., W.T.P.).

Circulation
|June 4, 2019
PubMed
Resumen

La terapia génica suprimió eficazmente las arritmias en modelos de ratón con taquicardia ventricular polimórfica catecolaminérgica (CPVT) al dirigirse a la CaMKII en los cardiomiocitos. Este enfoque también revirtió los fenotipos de arritmia en modelos de células madre humanas de CPVT.

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