Myocardial regeneration: expanding the repertoire of thymosin β4 in the ischemic heart

In vivo reprogramming of murine cardiac fibroblasts into induced cardiomyocytes

(2012) Li Qian et al.   NATURE

Thymosin β4 inhibits TNF-α-induced NF-κB activation, IL-8 expression, and the sensitizing effects by its partners PINCH-1 and ILK

(2011) Ping Qiu et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Adult mouse epicardium modulates myocardial injury by secreting paracrine factors

(2011) Bin Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Thymosin beta 4 treatment after myocardial infarction does not reprogram epicardial cells into cardiomyocytes

(2011) Bin Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury

(2011) Nicola Smart et al.   NATURE

Heart regeneration

(2011) Michael A. Laflamme et al.   NATURE

Significance of Thymosin β4 and Implication of PINCH-1-ILK-α-Parvin (PIP) Complex in Human Dilated Cardiomyopathy

(2011) Nikolai Sopko et al.   PLoS One

Transient Regenerative Potential of the Neonatal Mouse Heart

(2011) E. R. Porrello et al.   SCIENCE

Thymosin β4 facilitates epicardial neovascularization of the injured adult heart

(2010) Nicola Smart et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Thymosin β4 mediated PKC activation is essential to initiate the embryonic coronary developmental program and epicardial progenitor cell activation in adult mice in vivo

(2009) Ildiko Bock-Marquette et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Neurological functional recovery after thymosin beta4 treatment in mice with experimental auto encephalomyelitis

(2009) J. Zhang et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Cardiogenic Differentiation and Transdifferentiation of Progenitor Cells

(2008) Hans Reinecke et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Epicardial progenitors contribute to the cardiomyocyte lineage in the developing heart

(2008) Bin Zhou et al.   NATURE