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PLOS ONE
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269985
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- Swedish Society of Medicine
- Gothenburg Society of Medicine
- Emelle Foundation
- Heart-Lung Foundation
- ALF research grant from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- University of Skovde
- Swedish Knowledge Foundation
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Cardiomyocyte proliferation is the main source of new cardiomyocytes in adults. This study discovered SSEA4+CD34- cells in the adult human heart, which may serve as immature cycling cardiomyocytes and play a role in endogenous cardiac regeneration.
Cardiomyocyte proliferation has emerged as the main source of new cardiomyocytes in the adult. Progenitor cell populations may on the other hand contribute to the renewal of other cell types, including endothelial and smooth muscle cells. The phenotypes of immature cell populations in the adult human heart have not been extensively explored. We therefore investigated whether SSEA4+CD34- cells might constitute immature cycling cardiomyocytes in the adult failing and non-failing human heart. The phenotypes of Side Population (SP) and C-kit+CD45- progenitor cells were also analyzed. Biopsies from the four heart chambers were obtained from patients with end-stage heart failure as well as organ donors without chronic heart failure. Freshly dissociated cells underwent flow cytometric analysis and sorting. SSEA4+CD34- cells expressed high levels of cardiomyocyte, stem cell and proliferation markers. This pattern resembles that of cycling, immature, cardiomyocytes, which may be important in endogenous cardiac regeneration. SSEA4+CD34- cells isolated from failing hearts tended to express lower levels of cardiomyocyte markers as well as higher levels of stem cell markers. C-kit+CD45- and SP CD45- cells expressed high levels of endothelial and stem cell markers-corresponding to endothelial progenitor cells involved in endothelial renewal.
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