Is adult cardiac regeneration absent in Xenopus laevis yet present in Xenopus tropicalis?

• Published in: Cell & bioscience Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 31 - 4
• Main Authors: Marshall, Lindsey, Girardot, Fabrice, Demeneix, Barbara A., Coen, Laurent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 19.04.2018; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adults; Amphibians; Anuran amphibians; Cardiac regeneration; Cellular Biology; Development Biology; Frogs; Health aspects; Heart injury; Letter to the Editor; Life Sciences; Xenopus laevis; Xenopus tropicalis; Anuran amphibians; Heart injury; Xenopus tropicalis; Xenopus laevis; Cardiac regeneration

We recently used an endoscopy-based resection method to explore the consequences of cardiac injury in adult , obtaining the result that the adult heart is unable to regenerate. At 11 months post-amputation, cellular and biological marks of scarring persisted. We thus concluded that, contrary to urod...