The cardiogenic niche as a fundamental building block of engineered myocardium

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 82-93

  Christalla, Peter ^a   Hudson, James E ^a   Zimmermann, Wolfram Hubertus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac cells; Embryonic stem cells; Heart development; Myogenesis; Progenitor cells; Stem cell biology; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEART; HUMANS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOCARDIUM; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84155162783     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331407     Document Type: Article

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