Thymosin β4 and cardiac repair

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1194, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-96

  Shrivastava, Santwana ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^b   Olson, Eric N ^a   Dimaio, J Michael ^a   Bock Marquette, Ildiko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cardiac regeneration; Coronary development; PKC; Progenitor cells; Thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C; THYMOSIN BETA4; THYMOSIN; THYMOSIN BETA(4);

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPICARDIUM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PROTECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGENERATION; WOUND HEALING;

MAMMALIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MICE; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS; THYMOSIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77951804946     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05468.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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