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In vivo monitoring of cardiomyocyte proliferation to identify chemical modifiers of heart regeneration
4 Jan 2013
Abstract excerpt
Adult mammalian cardiomyocytes have little capacity to proliferate in response to injury, a deficiency that underlies the poor regenerative ability of human hearts after myocardial infarction. By contrast, zebrafish regenerate heart muscle after trauma by inducing proliferation of spared cardiomyocytes, providing a model for identifying manipulations that block or enhance these events. Although direct genetic or...
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