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Late developing cardiac lymphatic vasculature supports adult zebrafish heart function and regeneration.


ABSTRACT: The cardiac lymphatic vascular system and its potentially critical functions in heart patients have been largely underappreciated, in part due to a lack of experimentally accessible systems. We here demonstrate that cardiac lymphatic vessels develop in young adult zebrafish, using coronary arteries to guide their expansion down the ventricle. Mechanistically, we show that in cxcr4a mutants with defective coronary artery development, cardiac lymphatic vessels fail to expand onto the ventricle. In regenerating adult zebrafish hearts the lymphatic vasculature undergoes extensive lymphangiogenesis in response to a cryoinjury. A significant defect in reducing the scar size after cryoinjury is observed in zebrafish with impaired Vegfc/Vegfr3 signaling that fail to develop intact cardiac lymphatic vessels. These results suggest that the cardiac lymphatic system can influence the regenerative potential of the myocardium.

SUBMITTER: Harrison MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881116 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Late developing cardiac lymphatic vasculature supports adult zebrafish heart function and regeneration.

Harrison Michael Rm MR   Feng Xidi X   Mo Guqin G   Aguayo Antonio A   Villafuerte Jessi J   Yoshida Tyler T   Pearson Caroline A CA   Schulte-Merker Stefan S   Lien Ching-Ling CL  

eLife 20191108


The cardiac lymphatic vascular system and its potentially critical functions in heart patients have been largely underappreciated, in part due to a lack of experimentally accessible systems. We here demonstrate that cardiac lymphatic vessels develop in young adult zebrafish, using coronary arteries to guide their expansion down the ventricle. Mechanistically, we show that in <i>cxcr4a</i> mutants with defective coronary artery development, cardiac lymphatic vessels fail to expand onto the ventri  ...[more]

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