The human heart: A self-renewing organ

Clinical and Translational Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Kajstura, Jan ^a   Hosoda, Toru ^a   Bearzi, Claudia ^a   Rota, Marcello ^a   Maestroni, Silvia ^a   Urbanek, Konrad ^a   Leri, Annarosa ^a   Anversa, Piero ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CYTOKINESIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TELOPHASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; HEART; HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

DNA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CELLS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 68049134361     PISSN: 17528054     EISSN: 17528062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2008.00030.x     Document Type: Review

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