Horizontal gene transfer from human endothelial cells to rat cardiomyocytes after intracoronary transplantation

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 534-543

  Burghoff, Sandra ^a   Ding, Zhaoping ^a   Gödecke, Stefanie ^a   Assmann, Alexander ^a   Wirrwar, Andreas ^a   Buchholz, Doris ^a   Sergeeva, Olga ^a   Leurs, Cordula ^a   Hanenberg, Helmut ^a   Müller, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Bloch, Wilhelm ^b   Schrader, Jürgen ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Catheter based stem cell transplantation; Cell therapy; Horizontal gene transfer; HUVECs; Multipinhole SPECT; Stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDIUM 111; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STAINING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38849183374     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvm071     Document Type: Article

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