Chasing youth on the outside: unique features of the human fetal epicardium
- Resource Type
- Brief Communication
- Authors
- Smits, Anke M.; Goumans, Marie Jose
- Source
- Nature Cardiovascular Research. 1(12):1130-1131
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-0590
The epicardium has an active role in the formation of fetal and neonatal mammalian hearts, which retain the ability to regenerate. A single-cell comparison of human fetal and adult epicardial cells defines the transcriptomic programs that are specific to the fetal epicardium that could be harnessed to repair the injured adult heart.