Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Analysis of cardiomyocyte clonal expansion during mouse heart development and injury

  • Konstantina-Ioanna Sereti,
  • Ngoc B. Nguyen,
  • Paniz Kamran,
  • Peng Zhao,
  • Sara Ranjbarvaziri,
  • Shuin Park,
  • Shan Sabri,
  • James L. Engel,
  • Kevin Sung,
  • Rajan P. Kulkarni,
  • Yichen Ding,
  • Tzung K. Hsiai,
  • Kathrin Plath,
  • Jason Ernst,
  • Debashis Sahoo,
  • Hanna K.A. Mikkola,
  • M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe,
  • Reza Ardehali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02891-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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During cardiac tissue formation it is unclear whether newly generated myocytes originate from cardiac progenitor cells or from pre-existing cardiomyocytes. Here, the authors use a stochastic four-colour reporter system (Rainbow) to identify the source of new cardiomyocytes during mouse development.