Survival and development of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes transplanted into adult myocardium

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 107-116

  Müller Ehmsen, Jochen ^a,b,c   Whittaker, Peter ^a,c   Kloner, Robert A ^a,c   Dow, Joan S ^c   Sakoda, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c   Long, Tiffany I ^a   Laird, Peter W ^a   Kedes, Larry ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyoplasty; Cells; Development; Histology; Myocytes; Neonatal cardiomyocytes; Polymerase chain reaction; Rat; Survival; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CASPASE INHIBITOR; GENOMIC DNA; KETONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ELONGATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DONOR; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; RAT; RECIPIENT; TIME;

EID: 0036462783     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmcc.2001.1491     Document Type: Article

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