Macrophages stimulate epicardial VEGFaa expression to trigger cardiomyocyte proliferation in larval zebrafish heart regeneration
Bruton, F. A.; Kaveh, A.; Ross-Stewart, K.; Matrone, G.; Oremek, M. E.; Solomonidis, E. G.; Tucker, C. S.; Mullins, J. J.; Brittan, M.; Taylor, J. M.; Rossi, A. G.; Denvir, M. A.
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Cardiac injury induces a sustained macrophage response in both zebrafish and mammals. Macrophages perform a range of both beneficial and detrimental functions during mammalian cardiac repair, yet their precise roles in zebrafish cardiac regeneration are not fully understood. Here we characterise cardiac regeneration in the rapidly regenerating larval zebrafish laser injury model and use macrophage ablation and macrophage-null irf8 mutants to define the role of macrophages in key stages of regeneration. Live heartbeat-synchronised imaging and RNA sequencing revealed an early proinflammatory phase, marked by tnfa+ macrophages, which then resolved to an anti-inflammatory, profibrotic phase. Macrophages were required for cardiomyocyte proliferation but not for functional or structural recovery following injury. Importantly, we found that macrophages are specifically recruited to the epicardial-myocardial niche, triggering the expansion of the epicardium which upregulates VEGFaa expression to induce cardiomyocyte proliferation. Hence, revealing a novel mechanism by which macrophages facilitate cardiac regeneration.
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