Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production

Renee G. C. Maas, Floor W. van den Dolder, Qianliang Yuan, Jolanda van der Velden, Sean M. Wu, Joost P. G. Sluijter, Jan W. Buikema

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Abstract

Developmental research has attempted to untangle the exact signals that control heart growth and size, with knockout studies in mice identifying pivotal roles for Wnt and Hippo signaling during embryonic and fetal heart growth. Despite this improved understanding, no clinically relevant therapies are yet available to compensate for the loss of functional adult myocardium and the absence of mature cardiomyocyte renewal that underlies cardiomyopathies of multiple origins. It remains of great interest to understand which mechanisms are responsible for the decline in proliferation in adult hearts and to elucidate new strategies for the stimulation of cardiac regeneration. Multiple signaling pathways have been identified that regulate the proliferation of cardiomyocytes in the embryonic heart and appear to be upregulated in postnatal injured hearts. In this Review, we highlight the interaction of signaling pathways in heart development and discuss how this knowledge has been translated into current technologies for cardiomyocyte production.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberdev201483
JournalDevelopment (Cambridge, England)
Volume150
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Cardiomyocyte production
  • Cardiomyocyte proliferation
  • Cardiomyocyte self-renewal
  • Embryonic growth pathways
  • Fetal gene program
  • Heart regeneration
  • Hippo signaling
  • Wnt signaling
  • hiPSC-CM

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