Saving hearts through basic research

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-283

  Sirbu, Ioan Ovidiu ^a   Pandur, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac repair; Cardiogenesis; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; WNT11 PROTEIN;

BASIC RESEARCH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL TYPE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEART; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PROTECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STILLBIRTH;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; REGENERATION; RESEARCH; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 70349421312     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20159     Document Type: Review

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