Advances in understanding the mechanism of zebrafish heart regeneration

The adult mammalian heart was once believed to be a post-mitotic organ without any capacity for regeneration, but recent findings have challenged this dogma. A modified view assigns the mammalian heart a measurable capacity for regeneration throughout its lifetime, with the implication that endogeno...

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Main Author: Kazu Kikuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-11-01
Series:Stem Cell Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506114000841