Muscling up the heart: a preadolescent cardiomyocyte proliferation contributes to heart growth.

Zhang, Cheng-Hai; Kühn, Bernhard · Circ Res · 2014

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Abstract

A recent study from Naqvi et al in <i>Cell</i> shows that in mice during preadolescence, cardiomyocytes undergo a burst of proliferation that is related to a thyroid hormone surge. This study challenges the conventional model of the timing of terminal differentiation and provides a direction for further mechanistic research on cardiomyocyte proliferation and differentiation.

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