Bearing my heart: the role of extracellular matrix on cardiac development, homeostasis, and injury response

AC Silva, C Pereira, ACRG Fonseca… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an essential component of the heart that imparts
fundamental cellular processes during organ development and homeostasis. Most …

Polyploidy in cardiomyocytes: roadblock to heart regeneration?

W Derks, O Bergmann - Circulation research, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
The hallmark of most cardiac diseases is the progressive loss of cardiomyocytes. In the
perinatal period, cardiomyocytes still proliferate, and the heart shows the capacity to …

Gene therapy knockdown of Hippo signaling induces cardiomyocyte renewal in pigs after myocardial infarction

S Liu, K Li, L Wagner Florencio, L Tang… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Human heart failure, a leading cause of death worldwide, is a prominent example of a
chronic disease that may result from poor cell renewal. The Hippo signaling pathway is an …

Pkm2 regulates cardiomyocyte cell cycle and promotes cardiac regeneration

A Magadum, N Singh, AA Kurian, I Munir, T Mehmood… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The adult mammalian heart has limited regenerative capacity, mostly
attributable to postnatal cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest. In the last 2 decades, numerous …

Drug screening in human PSC-cardiac organoids identifies pro-proliferative compounds acting via the mevalonate pathway

RJ Mills, BL Parker, GA Quaife-Ryan, HK Voges… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
We have previously developed a high-throughput bioengineered human cardiac organoid
(hCO) platform, which provides functional contractile tissue with biological properties similar …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks underlying murine neonatal heart regeneration at single-cell resolution

Z Wang, M Cui, AM Shah, W Tan, N Liu, R Bassel-Duby… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The adult mammalian heart has limited capacity for regeneration following injury, whereas
the neonatal heart can readily regenerate within a short period after birth. Neonatal heart …

Mitochondrial substrate utilization regulates cardiomyocyte cell-cycle progression

AC Cardoso, NT Lam, JJ Savla, Y Nakada… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The neonatal mammalian heart is capable of regeneration for a brief window of time after
birth. However, this regenerative capacity is lost within the first week of life, which coincides …

gp130 controls cardiomyocyte proliferation and heart regeneration

Y Li, J Feng, S Song, H Li, H Yang, B Zhou, Y Li… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: A key cause of the high mortality of cardiovascular diseases is the
cardiomyocyte inability to renew after cardiac injury. As a promising strategy to supplement …

ERBB2 drives YAP activation and EMT-like processes during cardiac regeneration

A Aharonov, A Shakked, KB Umansky, A Savidor… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Cardiomyocyte loss after injury results in adverse remodelling and fibrosis, inevitably
leading to heart failure. The ERBB2–Neuregulin and Hippo–YAP signalling pathways are …

Exosomes secreted by hiPSC-derived cardiac cells improve recovery from myocardial infarction in swine

L Gao, L Wang, Y Wei, P Krishnamurthy… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Cell therapy treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) is mediated, in part, by exosomes
secreted from transplanted cells. Thus, we compared the efficacy of treatment with a mixture …