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Collagen XII contributes to epicardial and connective tissues in the Zebrafish heart during ontogenesis and regeneration

Marro, Jan ; Pfefferli, Catherine ; Preux Charles, Anne-Sophie de ; Bise, Thomas ; Jaźwińska, Anna

In: PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, no. 10, p. e0165497

Zebrafish heart regeneration depends on cardiac cell proliferation, epicardium activation and transient reparative tissue deposition. The contribution and the regulation of specific collagen types during the regenerative process, however, remain poorly characterized. Here, we identified that the non-fibrillar type XII collagen, which serves as a matrix-bridging component, is expressed in the...

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Preconditioning boosts regenerative programmes in the adult zebrafish heart

Preux Charles, Anne-Sophie de ; Bise, Thomas ; Baier, Felix ; Sallin, Pauline ; Jaźwińska, Anna

In: Open Biology, 2016, vol. 6, no. 7, p. 160101

During preconditioning, exposure to a non-lethal harmful stimulus triggers a body-wide increase of survival and pro-regenerative programmes that enable the organism to better withstand the deleterious effects of subsequent injuries. This phenomenon has first been described in the mammalian heart, where it leads to a reduction of infarct size and limits the dysfunction of the injured organ....

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Distinct effects of inflammation on preconditioning and regeneration of the adult zebrafish heart

Preux Charles, Anne-Sophie de ; Bise, Thomas ; Baier, Felix ; Marro, Jan ; Jaźwińska, Anna

In: Open Biology, 2016, vol. 6, no. 7, p. 160102

The adult heart is able to activate cardioprotective programmes and modifies its architecture in response to physiological or pathological changes. While mammalian cardiac remodelling often involves hypertrophic expansion, the adult zebrafish heart exploits hyperplastic growth. This capacity depends on the responsiveness of zebrafish cardiomyocytes to mitogenic signals throughout their entire...

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A dual epimorphic and compensatory mode of heart regeneration in zebrafish

Sallin, Pauline ; Preux Charles, Anne-Sophie de ; Duruz, Vincent ; Pfefferli, Catherine ; Jaźwińska, Anna

In: Developmental Biology, 2015, vol. 399, no. 1, p. 27–40

Zebrafish heart regeneration relies on the capacity of cardiomyocytes to proliferate upon injury. To understand the principles of this process after cryoinjury-induced myocardial infarction, we established a spatio-temporal map of mitotic cardiomyocytes and their differentiation dynamics. Immunodetection of phosphohistone H3 and embryonic ventricular heavy chain myosin highlighted two distinct...