Spurt of heart muscle cell division seen in mice well after birth: Implications for repair of congenital heart defects
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 18:31
in Health & Medicine
The entire heart muscle in young children may be capable of regeneration. In young mice 15 days old, cardiac muscle cells undergo a precisely timed spurt of cell division lasting around a day. This previously unobserved phenomenon contradicts the long-held idea that cardiac muscle cells do not divide after the first few days of life.