Thymosin β4: A key factor for protective effects of eEPCs in acute and chronic ischemia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1194, Issue , 2010, Pages 105-111

  Hinkel, Rabea ^a   Bock Marquette, Ildiko ^b   Hazopoulos, Antonis K ^c,d   Kupatt, Christian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Infarct size; Ischemia reperfusion; Progenitor cells; Thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; THYMOSIN BETA4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; THYMOSIN; THYMOSIN BETA(4);

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART PROTECTION; HINDLIMB; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIA; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUIDAE;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEART; HINDLIMB; ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RABBITS; SWINE; THYMOSIN;

EID: 77951778555     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05489.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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