Publication Date:
2008-05-16
Description:
Understanding the origins and roles of cardiac progenitor cells is important for elucidating the pathogenesis of congenital and acquired heart diseases. Moreover, manipulation of cardiac myocyte progenitors has potential for cell-based repair strategies for various myocardial disorders. Here we report the identification in mouse of a previously unknown cardiac myocyte lineage that derives from the proepicardial organ. These progenitor cells, which express the T-box transcription factor Tbx18, migrate onto the outer cardiac surface to form the epicardium, and then make a substantial contribution to myocytes in the ventricular septum and the atrial and ventricular walls. Tbx18-expressing cardiac progenitors also give rise to cardiac fibroblasts and coronary smooth muscle cells. The pluripotency of Tbx18 proepicardial cells provides a theoretical framework for applying these progenitors to effect cardiac repair and regeneration.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cai, Chen-Leng -- Martin, Jody C -- Sun, Yunfu -- Cui, Li -- Wang, Lianchun -- Ouyang, Kunfu -- Yang, Lei -- Bu, Lei -- Liang, Xingqun -- Zhang, Xiaoxue -- Stallcup, William B -- Denton, Christopher P -- McCulloch, Andrew -- Chen, Ju -- Evans, Sylvia M -- P41 RR005351/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- T32 HL007444/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 Jul 3;454(7200):104-8. doi: 10.1038/nature06969. Epub 2008 May 14.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18480752" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Differentiation
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*Cell Lineage
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Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
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Heart/growth & development
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Lac Operon/genetics
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Mice
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Myocardium/*cytology/metabolism
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Myocytes, Cardiac/*cytology/metabolism
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Myocytes, Smooth Muscle/metabolism
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Pericardium/*cytology/*metabolism
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Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism
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T-Box Domain Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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