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ArticleCell reports2019

Endocardial Notch Signaling Promotes Cardiomyocyte Proliferation in the Regenerating Zebrafish Heart through Wnt Pathway Antagonism.

Long Zhao, Raz Ben-Yair, Caroline E Burns, C Geoffrey Burns

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Article in Cell reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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77citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Long ZhaoCardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Raz Ben-YairCardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Caroline E BurnsCardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: cburns6@mgh.harvard.edu.
C Geoffrey BurnsCardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: gburns@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Change of InstitutionR35HL135831 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BURNS, CAROLINE E · 2017 to 2023
$4.2M
Modeling thoracic aortic aneurysm in zebrafishR01HL139806 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BURNS, C. GEOFFREY · 2018 to 2021
$1.7M
Deciphering the role of Notch signaling in zebrafish heart regenerationR01HL127067 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BURNS, C. GEOFFREY, BURNS, CAROLINE E · 2015 to 2018
$1.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL127067NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL139806NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL135831
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies demonstrate that the regenerative zebrafish heart responds to injury by upregulating Notch receptors in the endocardium and epicardium. Moreover, global suppression of Notch activity following injury impairs cardiomyocyte proliferation and induces scarring. However, the lineage-specific requirements for Notch signaling and full array of downstream targets remain unidentified. Here, we demonstrate that inhibition of endocardial Notch signaling following ventricular amputation compromises cardiomyocyte proliferation and stimulates fibrosis. RNA sequencing uncovered reduced levels of two transcripts encoding secreted Wnt antagonists, Wif1 and Notum1b, in Notch-suppressed hearts. Like Notch receptors, wif1 and notum1b are induced following injury in the endocardium and epicardium. Small-molecule-mediated activation of Wnt signaling is sufficient to impair cardiomyocyte proliferation and induce scarring. Last, Wnt pathway suppression partially restored cardiomyocyte proliferation in hearts experiencing endocardial Notch inhibition. Taken together, our data demonstrate that Notch signaling supports cardiomyocyte proliferation by dampening myocardial Wnt activity during zebrafish heart regeneration.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell ProliferationHeartMiceMyocytes, CardiacReceptors, NotchWnt Signaling PathwayZebrafishReceptors, Notchcardiac repaircardiomyocyte proliferationheart regenerationNotchnotumwifWntzebrafish

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PMID30650349
PMCPMC6366857
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