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Heart regeneration in adult MRL mice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Aug 2001
Leferovich J M, Bedelbaeva K, Samulewicz S, Zhang X M, Zwas D, Lankford E B, Heber-Katz E
Abstract excerpt
The reaction of cardiac tissue to acute injury involves interacting cascades of cellular and molecular responses that encompass inflammation, hormonal signaling, extracellular matrix remodeling, and compensatory adaptation of myocytes. Myocardial regeneration is observed in amphibians, whereas scar formation characterizes cardiac ventricular wound healing in a variety of mammalian injury models. We have...
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