Smooth muscle cells, but not myocytes, of host origin in transplanted human hearts

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-19

  Glaser, Ruchira ^a   Lu, Min Min ^a   Narula, Navneet ^a   Epstein, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle; Myocytes; Smooth; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL REGENERATION; CHIMERA; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEM CELL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036645391     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000021923.58307.8F     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Neovascularization of ischemic myocardium by human bone-marrow-derived angioblasts prevents cardiomyocyte apoptosis, reduces remodeling and improves cardiac function
2. Mobilized bone marrow cells repair the infarcted heart, improving function and survival
3. Bone marrow cells regenerate infarcted myocardium
4. Host bone-marrow cells are a source of donor intimal smooth- muscle-like cells in murine aortic transplant arteriopathy
5. Circulating smooth muscle progenitor cells contribute to atherosclerosis
6. Neointimal and tubulointerstitial infiltration by recipient mesenchymal cells in chronic renal allograft rejection
7. Chimerism of the transplanted heart
8. Evidence for cardiomyocyte repopulation by extracardiac progenitors in transplanted human hearts