Cardiomyocyte maturation: advances in knowledge and implications for regenerative medicine

E Karbassi, A Fenix, S Marchiano, N Muraoka… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Our knowledge of pluripotent stem cell (PSC) biology has advanced to the point where we
now can generate most cells of the human body in the laboratory. PSC-derived …

Therapeutic approaches for cardiac regeneration and repair

H Hashimoto, EN Olson, R Bassel-Duby - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Ischaemic heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Injury to the heart is
followed by loss of the damaged cardiomyocytes, which are replaced with fibrotic scar …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice

X Li, F Wu, S Günther, M Looso, C Kuenne, T Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Postnatal maturation of cardiomyocytes is characterized by a metabolic switch from
glycolysis to fatty acid oxidation, chromatin reconfiguration and exit from the cell cycle …

The extracellular matrix protein agrin promotes heart regeneration in mice

E Bassat, YE Mutlak, A Genzelinakh, IY Shadrin… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The adult mammalian heart is non-regenerative owing to the post-mitotic nature of
cardiomyocytes. The neonatal mouse heart can regenerate, but only during the first week of …

Hypoxia induces heart regeneration in adult mice

Y Nakada, DC Canseco, SW Thet, S Abdisalaam… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The adult mammalian heart is incapable of regeneration following cardiomyocyte loss,
which underpins the lasting and severe effects of cardiomyopathy. Recently, it has become …

Coordinating cell proliferation and differentiation: Antagonism between cell cycle regulators and cell type-specific gene expression

S Ruijtenberg, S van den Heuvel - Cell cycle, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cell proliferation and differentiation show a remarkable inverse relationship. Precursor cells
continue division before acquiring a fully differentiated state, while terminal differentiation …

The oxygen-rich postnatal environment induces cardiomyocyte cell-cycle arrest through DNA damage response

BN Puente, W Kimura, SA Muralidhar, J Moon… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The mammalian heart has a remarkable regenerative capacity for a short period of time after
birth, after which the majority of cardiomyocytes permanently exit cell cycle. We sought to …

Pkm2 regulates cardiomyocyte cell cycle and promotes cardiac regeneration

A Magadum, N Singh, AA Kurian, I Munir, T Mehmood… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The adult mammalian heart has limited regenerative capacity, mostly
attributable to postnatal cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest. In the last 2 decades, numerous …

Pathological ventricular remodeling: mechanisms: part 1 of 2

JS Burchfield, M Xie, JA Hill - Circulation, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Despite declines in heart failure morbidity and mortality with current therapies,
rehospitalization rates remain distressingly high, substantially affecting individuals, society …

Hippo pathway effector Yap promotes cardiac regeneration

M Xin, Y Kim, LB Sutherland… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The adult mammalian heart has limited potential for regeneration. Thus, after injury,
cardiomyocytes are permanently lost, and contractility is diminished. In contrast, the …