Highlights from Special Issue: Junctional Targets of Skin and Heart Diseases

Abstract

In this issue, guest editors Kathy Green and Mario Delmar, who are leaders in the fields of epidermal desmosomes and heart intercalated discs respectively, have joined forces to collate a two-part series of reviews focused on junctional proteins and genes that are targets of skin and heart diseases.

Keywords::

• desmosome
• intercalated disc
• pemphigus
• arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
• naxos
• carvajal cardiocutaneous syndrome