De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury.

A significant bottleneck in cardiovascular regenerative medicine is the identification of a viable source of stem/progenitor cells that could contribute new muscle after ischaemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. A therapeutic ideal--relative to cell transplantation--would be to stimul...

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Main Authors: Smart, N, Bollini, S, Dubé, K, Vieira, J, Zhou, B, Davidson, S, Yellon, D, Riegler, J, Price, A, Lythgoe, M, Pu, W, Riley, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011