title: Innate regeneration in the aging heart: healing from within.
abstract: The concept of the heart as a terminally differentiated organ incapable of replacing damaged myocytes has been at the center of cardiovascular research and therapeutic development for the past 50 years. The progressive decline in myocyte number as a function of age and the formation of scarred tissue after myocardial infarction have been interpreted as irrefutable proofs of the postmitotic characteristic of the heart. However, emerging evidence supports a more dynamic view of the heart in which cell death and renewal are vital components of the remodeling process that governs cardiac homeostasis, aging, and disease. The identification of dividing myocytes in the adult and senescent heart raises the important question concerning the origin of these newly formed cells. In vitro and in vivo findings strongly suggest that replicating myocytes derive from lineage determination of resident primitive cells, supporting the notion that cardiomyogenesis is controlled by activation and differentiation of a stem cell compartment. It is the current view that the myocardium is an organ permissive of tissue regeneration mediated by exogenous and endogenous progenitor cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Department of Medicine, and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: panversa@partners.org.
authors.forename: Piero
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Anversa
authors.forename: Annarosa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002465:Cell Movement; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D016922:Cellular Senescence / Q000502:physiology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D012038:Regeneration; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology
keywords: CSC; EF; cardiac stem cell; ejection fraction; hCSC; human cardiac stem cell
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