After suffering cardiac damage, zebrafish have the superpower to naturally repair heart muscles within 90 days.
“It is unclear how these cells stop dividing and mature enough to contribute to normal heart function. We were puzzled by the fact that in zebrafish hearts, the newly formed tissue naturally matured and integrated into the existing heart tissue without any problems,” said Phong Nguyen, the study's first author, in anZebrafish heart 60 days after injury showing the structure of the heart muscle cells have completely regenerated.
The study concluded that the LRRC10 gene may be essential in reducing cell division and increasing heart muscle cell maturation.
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