Transplantation of fetal cardiomyocytes into infarcted rat hearts results in long-term functional improvement

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 849-864

  Skobel, Erik ^a   Schuh, Alexander ^a   Schwarz, Ernst R ^a,b   Liehn, Elisa A ^a   Franke, Andreas ^a   Breuer, Sebastian ^a   Günther, Kalle ^a   Reffelmann, Thorsten ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a   Weber, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BROXURIDINE; CATECHOLAMINE; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATED HEART; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOMERE; SURVIVAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3042773693     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1076327041348491     Document Type: Article

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