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Evidence that the heart can regenerate

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News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020104-04

Published

4 January 2002

Conventional wisdom states that the heart cannot regenerate because cardiac myocytes — unlike cells in the bone marrow or intestinal epithelium — cannot divide. But, in 3 January New England Journal of Medicine, Federico Quaini and colleagues from New York Medical College, US investigated heart transplants from eight female donor hearts into male recipients (NEJM 2002, 346:5-15). This type of cross-gender transplant provides a unique opportunity to determine whether host cells have migrated by testing for presence of the Y chromosome.

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