Beating the odds: programming proliferation in the mammalian heart

Editorial summary The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body; adult cardiac myocytes divide at extremely low frequency. Therefore, meaningful induction of cardiac regeneration requires in-depth understanding of myocyte cell-cycle control. Recent insights into how myocytes ca...

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Main Authors: Rajan Jain, Andrey Poleshko, Jonathan A. Epstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Genome Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13073-018-0550-5