Heart Development and Regeneration via Cellular Interactionand Reprogramming

Heart development and regeneration via cellular interaction and reprogramming.

The heart consists of many types of cells, including cardiomyocytes, vascular cells, neural cells, and cardiac fibroblasts. Adult cardiomyocytes are terminally differentiated cells, and loss of cardiomyocytes as a result of heart damage is irreversible. To regenerate damaged hearts and restore cardiac function, understanding the cellular and molecular basis of heart development is of considerab...

Heart regeneration using reprogramming technology

Loss of terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes due to heart disease is irreversible and current therapeutic regimes are limited. Cell therapy using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes is an attractive option to repair injured hearts. The discovery of direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and successful differentiation of iPSCs into cardiomyocytes provide...

Heart regeneration: a tale of cell reprogramming.

Heart failure is one of the main health problems worldwide, and the urgent medical needs relating to it have positioned cardiovascular research as one of the most actively evolving fields in regenerative medicine. Many different strategies aiming to revert, palliate, or ameliorate the deleterious effects of heart failure have been intensively pursued, and excellent reviews on the topic exist. 1...

Cellular reprogramming: a new avenue to cardiac regeneration?

Reprogramming‐derived gene cocktail increases cardiomyocyte proliferation for heart regeneration

Although remnant cardiomyocytes (CMs) possess a certain degree of proliferative ability, efficiency is too low for cardiac regeneration after injury. In this study, we identified a distinct stage within the initiation phase of CM reprogramming before the MET process, and microarray analysis revealed the strong up-regulation of several mitosis-related genes at this stage of reprogramming. Severa...