Stem cells for myocardial tissue engineering

Nano Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Kai, Dan ^a   Prabhakaran, Molamma P ^b   Liao, Susan ^b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cardiac tissue engineering; Cardiomyogenic differentiation; Electrical stimulation; Mesenchymal; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELLS; CARDIAC TISSUE ENGINEERING; CARDIOMYOCYTES; CARDIOMYOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; IN-VITRO; INJECTABLES; MESENCHYMAL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL TISSUE ENGINEERING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; POTENTIAL TECHNIQUES;

CARDIOLOGY; HEART; STEM CELLS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WELL STIMULATION;

CELL CULTURE;

EID: 79959526529     PISSN: 18835198     EISSN: 21854734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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