More than a cover: Epicardium as a novel source of cardiac progenitor cells

Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 633-635

  Zhou, Bin ^a   Pu, William T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART STEM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PERICARDIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CARDIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HEART FAILURE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERICARDIUM; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 55949121115     PISSN: 17460751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460751.3.5.633     Document Type: Editorial

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