TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haack, Timm
A1  - Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim
T1  - The force within: endocardial development, mechanotransduction and signalling during cardiac morphogenesis
JF  - Development : Company of Biologists
N2  - Endocardial cells are cardiac endothelial cells that line the interior of the heart tube. Historically, their contribution to cardiac development has mainly been considered from a morphological perspective. However, recent studies have begun to define novel instructive roles of the endocardium, as a sensor and signal transducer of biophysical forces induced by blood flow, and as an angiocrine signalling centre that is involved in myocardial cellular morphogenesis, regeneration and reprogramming. In this Review, we discuss how the endocardium develops, how endocardial-myocardial interactions influence the developing embryonic heart, and how the dysregulation of blood flowresponsive endocardial signalling can result in pathophysiological changes.
KW  - Endocardium
KW  - Cardiac development
KW  - Hemodynamics
KW  - Bmp
KW  - Kruppel-like factor 2
KW  - Vegf
KW  - Mechanotransduction
KW  - Zebrafish
KW  - Mouse
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.131425
SN  - 0950-1991
SN  - 1477-9129
VL  - 143
SP  - 373
EP  - 386
PB  - Company of Biologists Limited
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muench, Juliane
A1  - Grivas, Dimitrios
A1  - Gonzalez-Rajal, Alvaro
A1  - Torregrosa-Carrion, Rebeca
A1  - de la Pompa, José Luis
T1  - Notch signalling restricts inflammation and serpine1 expression in the dynamic endocardium of the regenerating zebrafish heart
JF  - Development : Company of Biologists
N2  - The zebrafish heart regenerates after ventricular damage through a process involving inflammation, fibrotic tissue deposition/removal and myocardial regeneration. Using 3D whole-mount imaging, we reveal a highly dynamic endocardium during cardiac regeneration, including changes in cell morphology, behaviour and gene expression. These events lay the foundation for an initial expansion of the endocardium that matures to form a coherent endocardial structure within the injury site. We studied two important endocardial molecules, Serpine1 and Notch, which are implicated in different aspects of endocardial regeneration. Notch signalling regulates developmental gene expression and features of endocardial maturation. Also, Notch manipulation interferes with attenuation of the inflammatory response and cardiomyocyte proliferation and dedifferentiation. serpine1 is strongly expressed very early in the wound endocardium, with decreasing expression at later time points. serpine1 expression persists in Notch-abrogated hearts, via what appears to be a conserved mechanism. Functional inhibition studies show that Serpine1 controls endocardial maturation and proliferation and cardiomyocyte proliferation. Thus, we describe a highly dynamic endocardium in the regenerating zebrafish heart, with two key endocardial players, Serpine1 and Notch signalling, regulating crucial regenerative processes.
KW  - Heart regeneration
KW  - Endocardium
KW  - Myocardium
KW  - Signalling
KW  - Serpine1
KW  - Notch
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.143362
SN  - 0950-1991
SN  - 1477-9129
VL  - 144
SP  - 1425
EP  - 1440
PB  - Company of Biologists Limited
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -