Volume 27, No 8, Aug 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 8, August 2017: 959-960

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Cardiomyocyte proliferation: remove brakes and push accelerators

Lingjuan He¹ and Bin Zhou^1,2

¹The State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
²School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China Correspondence: Bin Zhou,(zhoubin@sibs.ac.cn)

Adult mammalian hearts cannot repair by themselves after injury due to limited proliferation of cardiomyocytes; removal of cell cycle blocker and/or addition of drugs that boost proliferation of cardiomyocytes provide potential means to cardiac regeneration. Three publications that appeared recently in Nature and Cell Research now provide new hope to the treatment of heart injuries.

10.1038/cr.2017.91

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