Recipient Age Determines the Cardiac Functional Improvement Achieved by Skeletal Myoblast Transplantation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1086-1092

  Kan, Chung Dann ^a,b   Li, Shu Hong ^a   Weisel, Richard D ^a   Zhang, Shun ^a   Li, Ren Ke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; MALE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; MALE; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 34548398199     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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