Transplanted neonatal cardiomyocytes as a potential biological pacemaker in pigs with complete atrioventricular block

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1022-1026

  Cai, Jun ^a   Lin, Guosheng ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a   Yang, Bo ^a   Jiang, Xuejun ^a   Yu, Qijing ^a   Song, Jian ^b  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocyte; Heart block; Pacemaker; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; SWINE;

EID: 33646342028     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000214954.09515.51     Document Type: Article

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