ArticleCommunications biology2024
Placental extracellular vesicles promote cardiomyocyte maturation and fetal heart development.
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- Cardiac regeneration and repair: the emerging mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Review
- Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk in Cardiovascular Programming: Linking the Intrauterine Environment to Lifelong Disease Risk.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
- Dll4 assembles the umbilical cord and placental vasculature.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Dynamics of the Mammalian Placental Metabolome in Placentogenesis and Embryonic Development.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Chronic in utero oxycodone exposure alters placental small EV proteome and fetal cardiomyopathy-linked pathways.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2026Article
- Human fetal circulating factors from pregnancies complicated by obesity upregulate genes associated with pathological hypertrophy in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026Article
- Placenta-derived extracellular vesicles in fetal health: emerging insights into brain development and environmental interactions.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Cardiac repair and regeneration: cell therapy, in vivo reprogramming, and the promise of extracellular vesicles.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025Review
- Extracellular Vesicles in Reproduction: Biology, Production, and Potential Applications in Livestock Breeding.Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene · 2025Review
- Stem-Cell Derived Exosomal microRNAs as Biomarkers and Therapeutics for Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- The GPI-anchor biosynthesis pathway is critical for syncytiotrophoblast differentiation and placental development.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Article
- The Trophoblast Compartment Helps Maintain Embryonic Pluripotency and Delays Differentiation towards Cardiomyocytes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Congenital heart defects are leading causes of neonatal mortality and are often associated with placental abnormalities, but mechanisms linking placenta and heart development are poorly understood. Herein, we investigated a potential signaling network connecting the placenta and nascent heart in mice. We found that fetal hearts exposed to media conditioned by placental tissue or differentiated wild-type trophoblast stem (TS) cells, but not undifferentiated TS cells, showed increased heart rate and epicardial cell outgrowth. This effect was not observed when hearts were exposed to media from TS cells lacking OVO-Like 2, a transcription factor required for trophoblast differentiation and placental development. Trophoblasts released abundant extracellular vesicles into media, and these vesicles were sufficient to mediate cardio-promoting effects. Our findings provide a potential mechanism whereby the placenta communicates with the fetal heart to promote cardiac morphogenesis, and offers insight into the link between poor placentation and a higher incidence of heart defects.
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