Thymosin beta 4 treatment after myocardial infarction does not reprogram epicardial cells into cardiomyocytes

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-47

  Zhou, Bin ^a,b   Honor, Leah B ^b   Ma, Qing ^b   Oh, Jin Hee ^b,c   Lin, Ruei Zeng ^d   Melero Martin, Juan M ^d   von Gise, Alexander ^b   Zhou, Pingzhu ^b   Hu, Tianyuan ^a   He, Lingjuan ^a   Wu, Kai Hong ^e   Zhang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Yuebo ^a   Pu, William T ^b,f  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocytes; Epicardium; Myocardial infarction; Reprogram; Thymosin beta 4

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN BETA4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPICARDIUM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS;

EID: 84055214880     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: 10958584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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