據(jù)4月3日的《科學(xué)》雜志報道說,,一個長期存在的問題,即我們在一生中是否能夠產(chǎn)生新的心臟細(xì)胞或我們在出生的時候就擁有了固定數(shù)量的心肌細(xì)胞現(xiàn)在終于得到了解答,。
Olaf Bergmann及其同僚利用大氣中的放射性污染發(fā)現(xiàn),,在人的生長過程中,人類實際上確實會再生一些心臟細(xì)胞(或稱心肌細(xì)胞),。 由于大氣中的碳-14水平在1950年代因為進(jìn)行地面上核彈爆炸而增加,,這導(dǎo)致了地球上所有生物的細(xì)胞中的該種同位素的水平都可能增加。 當(dāng)?shù)厣虾嗽囼灡唤怪?,我們的DNA中的碳-14水平開始慢慢地下降,。因此,研究人員能夠用該同位素作為一種細(xì)胞出生時的日期標(biāo)記,。 研究人員用碳來標(biāo)記在核試驗前后的不同時期出生的人的心臟細(xì)胞以建立在這些細(xì)胞中DNA合成時的年代,。 他們的結(jié)果表明,心肌細(xì)胞確實會在我們一生的過程中緩慢地更新,,而其更新率在緩慢地下降,,即在25歲時,心肌的年度更新率為1%,,而到75歲的時候,,該更新率下降至0.45%。 研究人員測定,,在這些心肌細(xì)胞中,,那些在人的正常的一生中被更新的細(xì)胞不到50%。
這一發(fā)現(xiàn)提示,,人們有必要研究刺激心肌更新過程的治療策略以治療損害的人類心臟細(xì)胞,。 在一則相關(guān)的Perspective中,Charles Murry 和 Richard Lee對這一發(fā)現(xiàn)進(jìn)行了更為詳細(xì)的解釋。(生物谷Bioon.com)
生物谷推薦原始出處:
Science 3 April 2009:DOI: 10.1126/science.1164680
Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Renewal in Humans
Olaf Bergmann,1* Ratan D. Bhardwaj,1* Samuel Bernard,2 Sofia Zdunek,1 Fanie Barnabé-Heider,1 Stuart Walsh,3 Joel Zupicich,1 Kanar Alkass,4 Bruce A. Buchholz,5 Henrik Druid,4 Stefan Jovinge,3,6 Jonas Frisén1
It has been difficult to establish whether we are limited to the heart muscle cells we are born with or if cardiomyocytes are generated also later in life. We have taken advantage of the integration of carbon-14, generated by nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War, into DNA to establish the age of cardiomyocytes in humans. We report that cardiomyocytes renew, with a gradual decrease from 1% turning over annually at the age of 25 to 0.45% at the age of 75. Fewer than 50% of cardiomyocytes are exchanged during a normal life span. The capacity to generate cardiomyocytes in the adult human heart suggests that it may be rational to work toward the development of therapeutic strategies aimed at stimulating this process in cardiac pathologies.
1 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
2 CNRS UMR5208, Institut Camille Jordan, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France.
3 Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Lund University, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden.
4 Department of Forensic Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
5 Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, L-397, Livermore, CA 94551, USA.
6 Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden.