Connexin43 transduction of skeletal myoblasts improves their electrical coupling with cardiac myocytes
Background: Organ transplantation is presently often the only avai lable option to repair a damaged heart. As heart donors are scarce, engineering of cardiac grafts from auto logous skeletal myoblasts is a promising novel therapeutic strategy. The functionality of skeletal mu scle cells in the heart...
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BioMed Central
2006
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