Kicking the epicardium up a Notch

Circulation Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-8

  Rentschler, Stacey ^a   Epstein, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Myocardial infarction; Progenitor cell; Regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

CELL FUNCTION; DRESSLER SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EPICARDIUM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD45; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICARDIUM; RECEPTORS, NOTCH;

EID: 79251634550     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.237297     Document Type: Editorial

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