Another angiogenesis-independent role for VEGF: SDF1-dependent cardiac repair via cardiac stem cells

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 369-370

  Claes, Filip ^a   Vandevelde, Wouter ^a   Moons, Lieve ^b   Tjwa, Marc ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR7; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ANGIOGENESIS; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; REGENERATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79960757807     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvr184     Document Type: Editorial

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