Engraftment of connexin 43-expressing cells prevents post-infarct arrhythmia

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7171, 2007, Pages 819-824

  Roell, Wilhelm ^a   Lewalter, Thorsten ^a   Sasse, Philipp ^a   Tallini, Yvonne N ^b   Choi, Bum Rak ^c   Breitbach, Martin ^a   Doran, Robert ^b   Becher, Ulrich M ^a   Hwang, Seong Min ^d   Bostani, Toktam ^a   Von Maltzahn, Julia ^a   Hofmann, Andreas ^a   Reining, Shaun ^b   Eiberger, Britta ^a   Gabris, Bethann ^d   Pfeifer, Alexander ^a   Welz, Armin ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a   Salama, Guy ^d   Schrickel, Jan W ^a   Kotlikoff, Michael I ^b   Fleischmann, Bernd K ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MORTALITY; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; INCIDENCE; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

MUS;

EID: 36949035990     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06321     Document Type: Article

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