De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury.
A significant bottleneck in cardiovascular regenerative medicine is the identification of a viable source of stem/progenitor cells that could contribute new muscle after ischaemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. A therapeutic ideal--relative to cell transplantation--would be to stimul...
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| author | Smart, N Bollini, S Dubé, K Vieira, J Zhou, B Davidson, S Yellon, D Riegler, J Price, A Lythgoe, M Pu, W Riley, P |
| author_facet | Smart, N Bollini, S Dubé, K Vieira, J Zhou, B Davidson, S Yellon, D Riegler, J Price, A Lythgoe, M Pu, W Riley, P |
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| description | A significant bottleneck in cardiovascular regenerative medicine is the identification of a viable source of stem/progenitor cells that could contribute new muscle after ischaemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. A therapeutic ideal--relative to cell transplantation--would be to stimulate a resident source, thus avoiding the caveats of limited graft survival, restricted homing to the site of injury and host immune rejection. Here we demonstrate in mice that the adult heart contains a resident stem or progenitor cell population, which has the potential to contribute bona fide terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction. We reveal a novel genetic label of the activated adult progenitors via re-expression of a key embryonic epicardial gene, Wilm's tumour 1 (Wt1), through priming by thymosin β4, a peptide previously shown to restore vascular potential to adult epicardium-derived progenitor cells with injury. Cumulative evidence indicates an epicardial origin of the progenitor population, and embryonic reprogramming results in the mobilization of this population and concomitant differentiation to give rise to de novo cardiomyocytes. Cell transplantation confirmed a progenitor source and chromosome painting of labelled donor cells revealed transdifferentiation to a myocyte fate in the absence of cell fusion. Derived cardiomyocytes are shown here to structurally and functionally integrate with resident muscle; as such, stimulation of this adult progenitor pool represents a significant step towards resident-cell-based therapy in human ischaemic heart disease. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:af41da49-c0db-4fd4-b14b-9b15708645cf2022-03-27T03:48:20ZDe novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:af41da49-c0db-4fd4-b14b-9b15708645cfEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Smart, NBollini, SDubé, KVieira, JZhou, BDavidson, SYellon, DRiegler, JPrice, ALythgoe, MPu, WRiley, PA significant bottleneck in cardiovascular regenerative medicine is the identification of a viable source of stem/progenitor cells that could contribute new muscle after ischaemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. A therapeutic ideal--relative to cell transplantation--would be to stimulate a resident source, thus avoiding the caveats of limited graft survival, restricted homing to the site of injury and host immune rejection. Here we demonstrate in mice that the adult heart contains a resident stem or progenitor cell population, which has the potential to contribute bona fide terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction. We reveal a novel genetic label of the activated adult progenitors via re-expression of a key embryonic epicardial gene, Wilm's tumour 1 (Wt1), through priming by thymosin β4, a peptide previously shown to restore vascular potential to adult epicardium-derived progenitor cells with injury. Cumulative evidence indicates an epicardial origin of the progenitor population, and embryonic reprogramming results in the mobilization of this population and concomitant differentiation to give rise to de novo cardiomyocytes. Cell transplantation confirmed a progenitor source and chromosome painting of labelled donor cells revealed transdifferentiation to a myocyte fate in the absence of cell fusion. Derived cardiomyocytes are shown here to structurally and functionally integrate with resident muscle; as such, stimulation of this adult progenitor pool represents a significant step towards resident-cell-based therapy in human ischaemic heart disease. |
| spellingShingle | Smart, N Bollini, S Dubé, K Vieira, J Zhou, B Davidson, S Yellon, D Riegler, J Price, A Lythgoe, M Pu, W Riley, P De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title | De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title_full | De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title_fullStr | De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title_full_unstemmed | De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title_short | De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury. |
| title_sort | de novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury |
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