Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20443822›Full record

ArticleClinical and translational science2008

The human heart: a self-renewing organ.

Jan Kajstura, Toru Hosoda, Claudia Bearzi, Marcello Rota, Silvia Maestroni, Konrad Urbanek, Annarosa Leri, Piero Anversa

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Article in Clinical and translational science, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Cardiac matrix: a clue for future therapy.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jan KajsturaDepartments of Anesthesia and Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. jkajstura@zeus.bwh.harvard.edu
Toru Hosoda
Claudia Bearzi
Marcello Rota
Silvia Maestroni
Konrad Urbanek
Annarosa Leri
Piero Anversa
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dogma that the heart is a static organ which contains an irreplaceable population of cardiomyocytes prevailed in the cardiovascular field for the last several decades. However, the recent identification of progenitor cells that give rise to differentiated myocytes has prompted a re-interpretation of cardiac biology. The heart cannot be viewed any longer as a postmitotic organ characterized by a predetermined number of myocytes that is defined at birth and is preserved throughout life. The myocardium constitutes a dynamic entity in which new young parenchymal cells are formed to substitute old damaged dying myocytes. The regenerative ability of the heart was initially documented with a classic morphometric approach and more recently with the demonstration that DNA synthesis, mitosis, and cytokinesis take place in the newly formed myocytes of the normal and pathologic heart. Importantly, replicating myocytes correspond to the differentiated progeny of cardiac stem cells. These findings point to the possibility of novel therapeutic strategies for the diseased heart.

Indexed as

RegenerationCell CycleCell LineageCell ProliferationDNAHeartHeart DiseasesHumansHypertrophyModels, BiologicalMuscle CellsMyocytes, CardiacStem CellsDNA

Identifiers

PMID20443822
PMCPMC5439577
OpenAlexW2015968280

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