The potential of embryonic stem cells to treat heart disease

Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 293-299

  Menasché, Philippe ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Bone marrow cells; Embryonic stem cells; Heart failure; Myocardial infarction; Skeletal myoblasts

Indexed keywords

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PACING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 23344432777     PISSN: 14648431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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