Diagnostic testing for chest pain in a pediatric emergency department and rates of cardiac disease before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study.

Objectives: Chest pain is a common chief complaint in pediatric emergency departments (EDs). Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been shown to increase the risk of cardiac disease. It remains unclear how COVID-19 changed how pediatric emergency clinicians approach patients presenting with chest pain.

Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice.

The most common form of genetic heart disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which is caused by variants in cardiac sarcomeric genes and leads to abnormal heart muscle thickening. Complications of HCM include heart failure, arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The dominant-negative c.

Nrf1 promotes heart regeneration and repair by regulating proteostasis and redox balance.

Following injury, cells in regenerative tissues have the ability to regrow. The mechanisms whereby regenerating cells adapt to injury-induced stress conditions and activate the regenerative program remain to be defined. Here, using the mammalian neonatal heart regeneration model, we show that Nrf1, a stress-responsive transcription factor encoded by the Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 Like 1 (Nfe2l1) gene, is activated in regenerating cardiomyocytes.

A consolidated AAV system for single-cut CRISPR correction of a common Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), caused by mutations in the X-linked dystrophin gene, is a lethal neuromuscular disease. Correction of DMD mutations in animal models has been achieved by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing using Cas9 (Cas9) delivered by adeno-associated virus (AAV). However, due to the limited viral packaging capacity of AAV, two AAV vectors are required to deliver the Cas9 nuclease and its single guide RNA (sgRNA), impeding its therapeutic application.

Cardiac Myoediting Attenuates Cardiac Abnormalities in Human and Mouse Models of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

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