Revisiting Preadolescent Cardiomyocyte Proliferation in Mice.

No Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Number Expansion in Preadolescent Mice

The magnitude of cardiomyocyte generation in the adult heart has been heavily debated. A recent report suggests that during mouse preadolescence, cardiomyocyte proliferation leads to a 40% increase in the number of cardiomyocytes. Such an expansion would change our understanding of heart growth and have far-reaching implications for cardiac regeneration. Here, using design-based stereology, we ...

Muscling up the heart: a preadolescent cardiomyocyte proliferation contributes to heart growth.

Cardiomyocyte Cell-Cycle Activity during Preadolescence

Earlier studies (Soonpaa et al., 1996) revealed a rapid drop-off of ventricular cardiomyocyte cell-cycle activity at birth in mice, followed by a burst of DNA synthesis during the first week of postnatal life which contributed to the formation of multi-nucleated cardiomyocytes by postnatal day 10 (PN10). It has recently been suggested that a second burst of cardiomyocyte cell-cycle activity occ...

Comparison of random and aligned PCL nanofibrous electrospun scaffolds on cardiomyocyte differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells

Objective(s):Cardiomyocytes have small potentials for renovation and proliferation in adult life. The most challenging goal in the field of cardiovascular tissue engineering is the creation of an engineered heart muscle. Tissue engineering with a combination of stem cells and nanofibrous scaffolds has attracted interest with regard to Cardiomyocyte creation applications. Human adipose-derived s...

A microRNA-Hippo pathway that promotes cardiomyocyte proliferation and cardiac regeneration in mice.

In contrast to lower vertebrates, the mammalian heart has limited capacity to regenerate after injury in part due to ineffective reactivation of cardiomyocyte proliferation. We show that the microRNA cluster miR302-367 is important for cardiomyocyte proliferation during development and is sufficient to induce cardiomyocyte proliferation in the adult and promote cardiac regeneration. In mice, lo...