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Cardiomyopathies are disorders with primary defect of the cardiac muscle, typically presenting in a familial context and associated with mutations in major determinants of the electrical or contractile properties of cardiomyocytes. This chapter reviews the main advances in the physiopathological and pharmacological understanding of cardiomyopathies using iPSCs.
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Hulot, JS. (2019). Modeling Cardiomyopathies with iPSCs. In: Inoue, H., Nakamura, Y. (eds) Medical Applications of iPS Cells . Current Human Cell Research and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3672-0_5
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