Chronic ectopic Ski expression in primary cardiac myofibroblasts induces apoptosis (85).
Chronic overexpression of Ski represses autophagy in the same cells (70).
Caspase-3/7 activity levels are upregulated after 96 h Ski overexpression (80).
Targeted Ski expression in myofibroblasts is a novel treatment for cardiac fibrosis (86).