A fair amount of the research and development work aimed at spurring greater regeneration of an injured heart is focused on cardiomyocytes, either by delivering new cells, or by encouraging existing cells to replicate or otherwise better resist the hostile environment following injury. As researchers here point out, regeneration is known to be an intricate dance between multiple different cell populations. Thus the signaling that facilitates coordination between those cell types may prove to be a better target for intervention than any single cell population, and single cell population approaches that have shown pro…
Signaling Between Cell Types is Vital to Heart Regeneration
A fair amount of the research and development work aimed at spurring greater regeneration of an injured heart is focused on cardiomyocytes, either by delivering new cells, or by encouraging existing cells to replicate or otherwise better resist the hostile environment following injury. As researchers here point out, regeneration is known to be an intricate dance between multiple different cell populations. Thus the signaling that facilitates coordination between those cell types may prove to be a better target for intervention than any single cell population, and single cell population approaches that have shown pro…