Cardiac cell therapy: Overexpression of connexin43 in skeletal myoblasts and prevention of ventricular arrhythmias

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9 B, 2009, Pages 3703-3712

  Fernandes, Sarah ^a,b   van Rijen, Harold V M ^c   Forest, Virginie ^a,b   Evain, Stéphane ^a,b   Leblond, Anne Laure ^a,b   Mérot, Jean ^a,b,d   Charpentier, Flavien ^a,b,d   Bakker, Jacques M T de ^c,e   Lemarchand, Patricia ^a,b  

^a L INSTITUT DU THORAX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cell therapy; Connexin43; Gene therapy; Myoblast

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; MALE; METABOLISM; MYOBLAST; PATHOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

LENTIVIRUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77449118231     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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