Statin therapy in patients with coronary artery disease improves the impaired endothelial progenitor cell differentiation into cardiomyogenic cells

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-68

  Rupp, Stefan ^a   Badorff, Cornel ^a   Koyanagi, Masamichi ^a   Urbich, Carmen ^a   Fichtlscherer, Stephan ^a   Aicher, Alexandra ^a   Zeiher, Andreas M ^a   Dimmeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocytes; Cell therapy; Coronary artery disease; Endothelial progenitor cells; Statins

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACTININ; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVINOLIN; SIMVASTATIN;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SARCOMERE; STEM CELL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; LOVASTATIN; MALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PYRROLES; RATS; SIMVASTATIN;

EID: 0347629192     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-003-0441-3     Document Type: Article

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