Adult cardiac progenitor cell aggregates exhibit survival benefit both in vitro and in vivo.

A major hurdle in the use of exogenous stems cells for therapeutic regeneration of injured myocardium remains the poor survival of implanted cells. To date, the delivery of stem cells into myocardium has largely focused on implantation of cell suspensions.We hypothesize that delivering progenitor ce...

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Main Authors: Michael Bauer, Lifeng Kang, Yiling Qiu, Jinhui Wu, Michelle Peng, Howard H Chen, Gulden Camci-Unal, Ahmad F Bayomy, David E Sosnovik, Ali Khademhosseini, Ronglih Liao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3511575?pdf=render