Rationale: The transcription factor NFATC1 (nuclear factor of activated T-cell 1) has been implicated in cardiac valve formation in humans and mice, but we know little about the underlying mechanisms....
Circ Res - issue: 126 - volume: 8 - pages: 968-984.

AIMS: During embryogenesis, the onset of circulatory blood flow generates a variety of hemodynamic forces which reciprocally induce changes in cardiovascular development and performance. It has been...
J Mol Cell Cardio - issue: - volume: 143 - pages: 51-62.

Muscular dystrophies are a group of rare muscular disorders characterized by weakness and progressive degeneration of the muscle. They are diseases of genetic origin caused by the mutation of one or...
Med Sci (Paris) - issue: 4 - volume: 36 - pages: 358-366.

IgG4-related hypophysitis is a rare disease, due to a lymphoplasmocytic IgG4 positive infiltration of the pituitary. Literature data are scarce, even though the description of cases has drastically...
Presse Med - issue: 1 - volume: 49 - pages: 104016.

Overactivation of the cAMP signal transduction pathway plays a central role in the pathogenesis of endocrine tumors. Genetic aberrations leading to increased intracellular cAMP or directly affecting...
Oncogene - issue: 16 - volume: 39 - pages: 3367-3380.

PURPOSE: Surgical indications for pituitary tumors during pregnancy are rare, and are derived from a balance between expected benefits, particularly for maternal benefits, and anesthetic/surgical...
Pituitary - issue: 2 - volume: 23 - pages: 189-199.

Molecular diagnosis of rare inherited palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) is still challenging. We investigated at the clinical and genetic level a consanguineous Tunisian family presenting an autosomal...
J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 4 - volume: 65 - pages: 397-410.

Telomere shortening follows a developmentally regulated process that leads to replicative senescence of dividing cells. However, whether telomere changes are involved in postmitotic cell function and...
Aging Cell - issue: 3 - volume: 19 - pages: e13097.

Molecular defects in type 1 facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) are caused by a heterozygous contraction of the D4Z4 repeat array from 1 to 10 repeat units (RUs) on 4q35. This study compared...
int J Mol Sci - issue: 6 - volume: 21 - pages: 2221.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a hereditary sensory-motor neuropathy characterized by a strong clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Over the past few years, with the occurrence of whole-exome...
J. Hum. Genet. - issue: 3 - volume: 65 - pages: 313-323.

Cardiac diseases, characterized by cardiomyocyte loss, lead to dramatic impairment of cardiac function and ultimately to congestive heart failure. Despite significant advances, conventional treatments...
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res - issue: 3 - volume: 1867 - pages: 118461.

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) has been associated with the genetic and epigenetic molecular features of the CpG-rich D4Z4 repeat tandem array at 4q35. Reduced DNA methylation of D4Z4...
Genes - issue: 3 - volume: 11 - pages: 258.

Mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene are responsible for Rett syndrome (RTT), a severe neurological disorder for which there is no treatment. Several studies have linked the loss of MeCP2 function to...
EMBO Mol Med - issue: 2 - volume: 12 - pages: e10889.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe endocrinological outcome in patients operated on for acromegaly. METHODS: A retrospective study included 167 patients. Patients were assessed in the...
Ann Endocrinol (Paris) - issue: 1 - volume: 81 - pages: 11-17.

CONTEXT: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) occur in more than 80% of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) syndrome, with predominance of small (<1cm) non-functioning...
Ann Endocrinol (Paris) - issue: 1 - volume: 81 - pages: 39-43.

PURPOSE: Aggressive meningiomas that progress after surgery/radiotherapy represent an unmet medical need. Strong and constant expression of SSTR2A receptors and activation of the Pi3K/Akt/mTOR...
Clin Cancer Res - issue: 3 - volume: 26 - pages: 552-557.

BACKGROUND: Today, transcranial (TC) approach indications are particularly rare in pituitary adenomas (PA), representing 1.1% of all PA surgeries in our experience. In these rare and selected cases,...
J Neurosurg Sci - issue: 1 - volume: 64 - pages: 25-36.

Valvular heart disease is observed in approximately 2% of the general population1. Although the initial observation is often localized (for example, to the aortic or mitral valve), disease...
Nat Genet - issue: 1 - volume: 52 - pages: 40-47.

Unexplained sudden death in the young is cardiovascular in most cases. Structural and conduction defects in cardiac-related genes can conspire to underlie sudden cardiac death. Here we report a...
Herz - issue: - volume: - pages: .

Cardiac valve disease can lead to severe cardiac dysfunction and is thus a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality. Its main treatment is valve replacement, which is currently greatly limited by the...
Dev Cell - issue: 52 - volume: 1 - pages: 9-20.e7.