Little fish, big data: zebrafish as a model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

P Gut, S Reischauer, DYR Stainier… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The burden of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases worldwide is staggering. The
emergence of systems approaches in biology promises new therapies, faster and cheaper …

Cardiotoxicity of anticancer drugs: Molecular mechanisms and strategies for cardioprotection

MB Morelli, C Bongiovanni, S Da Pra… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chemotherapy and targeted therapies have significantly improved the prognosis of
oncology patients. However, these antineoplastic treatments may also induce adverse …

ERBB2 drives YAP activation and EMT-like processes during cardiac regeneration

A Aharonov, A Shakked, KB Umansky, A Savidor… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Cardiomyocyte loss after injury results in adverse remodelling and fibrosis, inevitably
leading to heart failure. The ERBB2–Neuregulin and Hippo–YAP signalling pathways are …

YAP1, the nuclear target of Hippo signaling, stimulates heart growth through cardiomyocyte proliferation but not hypertrophy

A von Gise, Z Lin, K Schlegelmilch… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Heart growth is tightly controlled so that the heart reaches a predetermined size. Fetal heart
growth occurs through cardiomyocyte proliferation, whereas postnatal heart growth involves …

Nrg1 is an injury-induced cardiomyocyte mitogen for the endogenous heart regeneration program in zebrafish

M Gemberling, R Karra, AL Dickson, KD Poss - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Heart regeneration is limited in adult mammals but occurs naturally in adult zebrafish
through the activation of cardiomyocyte division. Several components of the cardiac injury …

ERBB2 triggers mammalian heart regeneration by promoting cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation

G D'Uva, A Aharonov, M Lauriola, D Kain… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
The murine neonatal heart can regenerate after injury through cardiomyocyte (CM)
proliferation, although this capacity markedly diminishes after the first week of life …

Zebrafish models of cardiac disease: From fortuitous mutants to precision medicine

JM González-Rosa - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite decades of research, most
heart pathologies have limited treatments, and often the only curative approach is heart …

Building and re-building the heart by cardiomyocyte proliferation

MJ Foglia, KD Poss - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The adult human heart does not regenerate significant amounts of lost tissue after injury.
Rather than making new, functional muscle, human hearts are prone to scarring and …

Tension heterogeneity directs form and fate to pattern the myocardial wall

R Priya, S Allanki, A Gentile, S Mansingh, V Uribe… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
How diverse cell fates and complex forms emerge and feed back to each other to sculpt
functional organs remains unclear. In the develo** heart, the myocardium transitions from …

Left ventricular noncompaction: a distinct cardiomyopathy or a trait shared by different cardiac diseases?

E Arbustini, F Weidemann, JL Hall - Journal of the American College of …, 2014 - jacc.org
Whether left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a distinct cardiomyopathy or a
morphologic trait shared by different cardiomyopathies remains controversial. Current …