Volume 23, No 8, Aug 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 8, August 2013: 978-979

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Regeneration potential of adult cardiac myocytes

Kyohei Oyama¹, Danny El-Nachef¹ and W Robb MacLellan¹

¹Departments of Medicine and Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, Institute for Stem Cell Research, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Correspondence: W Robb MacLellan, Tel: +1-206-543-8584; Fax: +1-206-616-4847(WRMacLellan@cardiology.washington.edu)

Although adult cardiac myocytes (CMs) have very little proliferative potential, fetal CMs divide robustly. The mechanisms underlying the post-mitotic state of CMs are poorly understood; however, recently Mahmoud et al. identified a homeodomain transcription factor, Meis1, which controls postnatal CM cell cycle.

10.1038/cr.2013.78

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