Human amniotic mesenchymal cells have some characteristics of cardiomyocytes

Transplantation

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 528-535

  Zhao, Peng ^a   Ise, Hirohiko ^a   Hongo, Minoru ^a   Ota, Masao ^a   Konishi, Ikuo ^a   Nikaido, Toshio ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellular cardiomyoplasty; Human amniotic mesenchymal cells; Nkx2.5; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ALPHA; MYOSIN IIA; MYOSIN IIV; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMNION CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME CELL; MESODERM; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

AMNION; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 14944363229     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000149503.92433.39     Document Type: Article

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