Cardiomyocyte transplantation improves heart function

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 654-661

  Li, Ren Ke ^a,b   Jia, Zhi Qiang ^a   Weisel, Richard D ^a   Mickle, Donald A G ^a   Zhang, Ji ^a   Mohabeer, Molly K ^a   Rao, Vivek ^a   Ivanov, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR;

EID: 0030246895     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00389-X     Document Type: Article

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