Redox Regulation of Heart Regeneration: An Evolutionary Tradeoff

Heart failure is a costly and deadly disease, affecting over 23 million patients worldwide, half of which die within 5 years of diagnosis. The pathophysiological basis of heart failure is the inability of the adult heart to regenerate lost or damaged myocardium. Although limited myocyte turnover doe...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Waleed El Helaly, Shuda Xia, Mohamed Hamza, Nicholas Lam, Hesham Sadek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcell.2016.00137/full