A nucleolar weapon in our fight for regenerating adult hearts nucleostemin and cardiac stem cells

Circulation Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-6

  Tjwa, Marc ^a,b   Dimmeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Akt; Cardiac differentiation

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOSTEMIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE PIM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; NUCLEOSTEMIN PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEOSTEMIN PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEOSTEMIN PROTEIN, RAT; PIM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PIM1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PIM1 PROTEIN, RAT;

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELL; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; DOWN REGULATION; EDITORIAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NOTE; RAT; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART; HUMANS; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-PIM-1; RATS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 48049124563     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.108.179994     Document Type: Editorial

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