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c-kit is required for cardiomyocyte terminal differentiation.
Circulation research - 28 Mar 2008
Li Ming, Naqvi Nawazish, Yahiro Eiji, Liu Ke, Powell Pamela C, Bradley Wayne E, Martin David I K, Graham Robert M, Dell'Italia Louis J, Husain Ahsan
Abstract excerpt
c-kit, the transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor for stem cell factor, is required for melanocyte and mast cell development, hematopoiesis, and differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells. We show here that in the heart, c-kit is expressed not only by cardiac stem cells but also by cardiomyocytes, commencing immediately after birth and terminating a few days later, coincident with the onset of cardiomyocyte...
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