2013
Translational profiling of cardiomyocytes identifies an early Jak1/Stat3 injury response required for zebrafish heart regeneration
Fang Y, Gupta V, Karra R, Holdway JE, Kikuchi K, Poss KD. Translational profiling of cardiomyocytes identifies an early Jak1/Stat3 injury response required for zebrafish heart regeneration. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2013, 110: 13416-13421. PMID: 23901114, PMCID: PMC3746860, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309810110.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart regenerationSTAT3 inhibitionCertain lower vertebratesZebrafish heart regenerationRibosome affinity purificationTranslational profilingProgram essentialLower vertebratesAffinity purificationPathway membersSTAT3-dependent mannerZebrafish cardiomyocytesCardiomyocyte proliferationAnimal growthInjury-induced proliferationDynamic inductionProliferationCardiomyocytesInjury responseRegenerationRln3aVertebratesCardiogenesisRNAInhibition
2012
Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis
Gupta V, Poss KD. Clonally dominant cardiomyocytes direct heart morphogenesis. Nature 2012, 484: 479-484. PMID: 22538609, PMCID: PMC3340018, DOI: 10.1038/nature11045.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStem cell populationVertebrate embryosVertebrate organsNew lineageClonal dominanceEmbryonic structuresClonal analysisTissue architectureCell populationsProliferative behaviorIndividual cardiomyocytesAdult formKey mechanismCardiomyocytesAdult cardiac structureCirculatory needsMorphogenesisLineagesEmbryosMaturesDominanceOrgansVariable sizeThick wallsLateral expansion
2011
tcf21+ epicardial cells adopt non-myocardial fates during zebrafish heart development and regeneration
Kikuchi K, Gupta V, Wang J, Holdway JE, Wills AA, Fang Y, Poss KD. tcf21+ epicardial cells adopt non-myocardial fates during zebrafish heart development and regeneration. Development 2011, 138: 2895-2902. PMID: 21653610, PMCID: PMC3119303, DOI: 10.1242/dev.067041.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart developmentZebrafish heart developmentRecent lineage-tracing studiesLineage-tracing studiesEmbryonic developmentUpstream sequencesHeart regenerationCell typesEpicardial cellsDevelopmental potentialCardiac muscle cellsZebrafishTCF21Muscle cellsPerivascular cellsCellsFateRegenerationCardiogenesisLarvalEpicardial tissueSequenceExpressionDevelopment