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    • Cardiovascular biology
    • Neuroscience
    • Regenerative medicine

    Background:

    • Cardiac nerves influence heart regeneration and are altered after injury.
    • Existing knowledge of cardiac nerve structure is limited by 2D analysis.

    Approach:

    • Utilized genetic models, whole-mount imaging, and 3D modeling.
    • Defined cardiac nerve architecture and neurovascular associations across development, disease, and regeneration.

    Key Points:

    • Cardiac nerves develop by associating with coronary vessels.
    • Parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves densely and synchronously innervate ventricles.
    • Regenerating hearts re-establish physiological cardiac innervation.

    Conclusions:

    • Reinnervation during cardiac regeneration depends on collateral artery formation.
    • Understanding cardiac nerve remodeling offers novel therapeutic strategies for heart disease.