Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the interrelations of the proliferation and
differentiation processes during cardiac myogenesis and regeneration. Myogenesis has
attracted the ever-increasing interest of investigators for more than 100 years.
Interrelationships between cytodifferentiation and the proliferation of myogenic cells have
been found to be highly complicated and apparently not identical in diverse types of
myogeneses. Some investigators believe that myocardial cells possess an intrinsic capacity …