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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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