Fetal myocardium in the kidney capsule: an in vivo model of repopulation of myocytes by bone marrow cells.

Debate surrounds the question of whether the heart is a post-mitotic organ in part due to the lack of an in vivo model in which myocytes are able to actively regenerate. The current study describes the first such mouse model--a fetal myocardial environment grafted into the adult kidney capsule. Here...

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Main Authors: Eric Y Zhang, Qiang Xiong, Lei Ye, Piradeep Suntharalingam, Xiaohong Wang, C Michael Astle, Jianyi Zhang, David E Harrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3285614?pdf=render