Proliferation of cardiomyocytes in relation to coronary vessels prenatal development in human heart.

Abstract

The objectives of our exploration were to define the relationship between the cardiomyocytes proliferative activity and coronary vessels development. We have examined 20 embryos from 4 up to 8 weeks of embryogenesis and 4 human foetus up to 12 weeks of prenatal development. For identification of endothelium we used specific marker CD34; for estimation of proliferative activity of cardiomyocytes - monoclonal antibodies Кі-67 (МІВ-1); besides, we assigned vimentin for identification of smooth myocytes, fibroblasts and perycites. Immunohistochemical reactions carried out with using of the system of visualization LSAB. In the consequence of investigations, the highest cardiomyocyte proliferative activity has been seen at the moment of the absence of cellular component of coronary vessels. Furthermore, the highest amount of endothelia and vimentin-positive cells in the myocardium correlated with the lowest values of cardiomyocyte proliferative index. This fact casts some doubt of the positive coronary vessels effect upon division activity of myocardial cells.Furthermore, decrease in myocardiocyte divisions accompanied by the increase of the coronary components, that confirms previous conclusion. This contradicts to the data of similar processes in mice, what must be taken in account in further investigations