Neonatal and adult cardiac fibroblasts exhibit inherent differences in cardiac regenerative capacity

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Directly reprogramming fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes improves cardiac function in the infarcted heart. However, the low efficacy of this approach hinders clinical applications. Unlike the adult mammalian heart, the neonatal heart has an intrinsic regenerative capacity. Consequently, we hypothesized that birth imposes fundamental changes in cardiac fibroblasts which limit their regenerative capabilities. In...

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