Cardiac cell therapy in vitro: Reproducible assays for comparing the efficacy of different donor cells

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-80

  Klinger, Rebecca ^a   Bursac, Nenad ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 38549090588     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2007.913849     Document Type: Article

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