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. 2024 Dec 19;9:40. doi: 10.1038/s41536-024-00384-w

Fig. 4. Cardiomyocyte proliferation in adult Tg(mlc2:H2C) transgenic X. tropicalis line upon apical resection injury.

Fig. 4

a Immunostaining for mCherry (red) and Ki67 (green) expression in the apex of adult hearts from F1 Tg(mlc2:H2C) frogs at the indicated time points after resection. DAPI was used as a nuclear stain (blue). b Quantification of mCherry+Ki67+ cells in ventricular apex during heart regeneration within 30 days. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 3 hearts for sham, 5 ~ 8 hearts for injured groups). *p < 0.05, ****p < 0.0001 versus sham. ###p < 0.001, ####p < 0.0001 (one-way ANOVA test). c Representative images of mCherry+Ki67+ cells in the whole apical regions at 7 and 30 dpr. Magnified Z-stack confocal images of mCherry+Ki67+ cells are shown in right panel. d Immunostaining for mCherry (red) and pH3 (green, antibody from CST, #9701) expression in the apex of adult hearts from F1 Tg(mlc2:H2C) frogs at the indicated time points after resection. DAPI was used as a nuclear stain (blue). e Quantification of mCherry+pH3+ cells in ventricular apex during heart regeneration within 30 days. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 3 hearts for sham, 5 hearts for injured groups). **p < 0.01, ****p < 0.0001 versus sham. #p < 0.05, ####p < 0.0001 (one-way ANOVA test). f Representative images of mCherry+pH3+ cells in the whole apical regions at 7 and 30 dpr. Magnified confocal images of mCherry+pH3+ cells are shown in right panel.