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Conventional teaching suggests the heart cannot regenerate because cardiac myocytes cannot divide, leading to adaptation through hypertrophy rather than hyperplasia.
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Discusses the biological limits of cardiac hypertrophy and the potential for cardiac regeneration.
Schwartz et al. (2002) conducted an editorial in Cardiac enlargement and remodeling. Conventional teaching suggests the heart cannot regenerate because cardiac myocytes cannot divide, leading to adaptation through hypertrophy rather than hyperplasia.
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