Is it possible to transform cardiac scar tissue into beating heart muscle in humans?

Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 623-625

  Chin, Michael T ^a   Murry, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac progenitor cell; cardiac regeneration; cardiosphere derived cell; fibroblast transdifferentiation; stem cell

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAND2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; FIBROBLAST; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR; THERAPY EFFECT;

CICATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELLS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84866070245     PISSN: 17460751     EISSN: 1746076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/rme.12.54     Document Type: Review

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