Do myocytes proliferate?
Do myocytes proliferate? The prevailing dogma, based largely on studies in rodents, was that differentiated cardiomyocytes could proliferate in utero, but after birth, cardiomyocytes undergo 1–2 rounds of proliferation, become binucleated, and withdraw from the cell cycle. What is myocyte apoptosis? Programmed cell death (apoptosis) of cardiac muscle cells has been identified as an essential […]