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ArticleCells2026

Neonatal Regulatory T Cells Mediate Fibrosis and Contribute to Cardiac Repair.

Tabito Kino, Sadia Mohsin, Yumi Chiba, Michiko Sugiyama, Tomoaki Ishigami

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Article in Cells, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Tabito KinoDepartment of Cardiology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3700-4358
Sadia MohsinCardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
Yumi ChibaAdvanced Adult Nursing, Department of Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.
Michiko SugiyamaDepartment of Cardiology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.
Tomoaki IshigamiDepartment of Cardiology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan.

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 23K15135
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neonatal heart possesses a unique capacity for reparative healing after myocardial injury, unlike the adult heart. While immune cells, particularly T cells, regulate post-infarction inflammation, their role in age-dependent cardiac repair remains unclear. This study aimed to characterize the temporal activation of T cell subsets and their contribution to immune homeostasis and myocardial repair. Myocardial infarction was induced in mice of different ages, and T cell subsets (CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, and CD4+Foxp3+ T [T-reg] cells) were analyzed using flow cytometry and RNA sequencing. Neonatal hearts exhibited CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, and T-reg cells that gradually increased until seven days post-injury. Transcriptome analysis identified Rcn3 as a neonatal-specific, injury-responsive gene in T-reg cells, with minimal induction in adult and aged hearts, promoting a reparative microenvironment and exerting anti-fibrotic effects via the PI3K/Akt pathway. Under endoplasmic reticulum stress, Rcn3 activated unfolded protein response genes, and Rcn3-conditioned media reduced fibrosis-associated gene expression in adult cardiac fibroblasts. In a conditional knockout mouse model (Lck-cre; Rcn3

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Myocardial InfarctionMyocardiumT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAnimalsAnimals, NewbornFibrosisMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktSignal TransductionPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktcardiac repairCD4+Foxp3+ T (T-reg) cellsfibrosisimmune homeostasismyocardial infarctionneonatal heartPI3K/Akt pathwayRcn3

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PMCPMC12840535

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