A Role for Ploidy in Heart Regeneration

Publication date: 26 February 2018
Source:Developmental Cell, Volume 44, Issue 4
Author(s): Zachary A. Kadow, James F. Martin
There is mounting circumstantial evidence that ploidy, a cell's relative DNA content, is in part responsible for the differential cardiac regenerative capacity observed between regenerative and non-regenerative organisms. In this issue of Developmental Cell, González-Rosa et al. (2018) provide direct evidence that polyploid cardiomyocytes have reduced proliferative and regenerative potential.

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There is mounting circumstantial evidence that ploidy, a cell's relative DNA content, is in part responsible for the differential cardiac regenerative capacity observed between regenerative and non-regenerative organisms. In this issue of Developmental Cell, González-Rosa et al. (2018) provide direct evidence that polyploid cardiomyocytes have reduced proliferative and regenerative potential.


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