Find the stimulus, save the heart: a heroes' story.
Find the stimulus, save the heart: a heroes' story.
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找到刺激,拯救心灵:英雄的故事。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.00194.2021
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2021
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DeLeon-Pennell,KristineY
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Westbury,Baylee;Bolus,Dawson;DeLeon-Pennell,KristineY
Myocardial infarction (MI) remains the most common cause for heart failure worldwide (1). After the first week of birth, cardiomyocytes are unable to regenerate, and after ischemic injury, the heart undergoes fibrotic remodeling. In response to the ischemic event, immune cells, including macrophages, begin to remove the necrotic debris and stimulate deposition of an extracellular matrix (ECM)-rich scar (2). Recent transcriptomic analyses have suggested that with age, the transition from neonatal yolk sac macrophages to classical macrophages is stimulating adverse fibroblast-based cardiac remodeling after MI. Yolk sac-derived macrophages predominate in the neonate hearts and are more receptive to growth factors that affect cardiomyocyte regeneration. The molecular mechanisms that govern the change with age and drive fibrosis via inflammation are poorly understood.In this issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Whitehead et al.(3) potentiated the cross talk mechanisms that occur between macrophages and cardiac fibroblasts and explore how this mechanism contributes to heart remodeling after MI injury using genomic data from multiple data sets. Through transcriptomic analysis of regenerative (P1) and nonregenerative (P8) mouse hearts before and after infarction, they found differences in expression of genes that control damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) signaling, ECM deposition, and chemokine profiles. A major strength of this study is the analysis of the many variables of cardiac injury and healing. Because these processes are multifactorial, it is important to account for the multiple affecting variables. Interestingly, the P1 and P8 hearts had similar expression profiles immediately after infarct, but the P1 hearts eventually returned to baseline whereas the P8 hearts formed a new homeostatic baseline. This led to the conclusion that signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling occurs earlier in the regenerative (P1) hearts resulting in resolution of inflammation and an attenuation in leukocyte recruitment compared with the nonregenerating (P8) hearts.