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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2018

Development, Proliferation, and Growth of the Mammalian Heart.

Marie Günthel, Phil Barnett, Vincent M Christoffels

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marie GünthelDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Phil BarnettDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Vincent M ChristoffelsDepartment of Medical Biology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: v.m.christoffels@amc.uva.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During development, the embryonic heart grows by addition of cells from a highly proliferative progenitor pool and by subsequent precisely controlled waves of cardiomyocyte proliferation. In this period, the heart can compensate for cardiomyocyte loss by an increased proliferation rate of the remaining cardiomyocytes. This proliferative capacity is lost soon after birth, with heart growth continuing by an increase in cardiomyocyte volume. The failure of the injured adult heart to regenerate often leads to the development of heart failure, a major cause of death. With the recent observation of a small fraction of cardiomyocytes that appear to have retained the proliferative capacity within the adult heart, as well as the identification of developmental pathways such as the Hippo-signaling pathway that can invoke mature cardiomyocyte proliferation, more studies are taking a knowledge-based mechanistic approach to heart regeneration. A key question being asked is if this knowledge can be used therapeutically to reinitiate cardiomyocyte proliferation after injury such as myocardial infarction. In this respect, uncovering and understanding the mechanisms and conditions that give rise to a fully functional and adaptive heart in the developing embryo could provide us with the answers to many of the questions that are now being asked.

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AnimalsCell ProliferationHeartHeart FailureHumansMammalsMyocardial InfarctionMyocytes, CardiacRegenerationSignal Transductiondevelopmenthearthuman

Identifiers

PMID29929790
PMCPMC6037201

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