Intramyocardial Transplantation and Tracking of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Novel Intra-Uterine Pre-Immune Fetal Sheep Myocardial Infarction Model: A Proof of Concept Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Emmert, Maximilian Y ^a,b   Weber, Benedikt ^a,b   Wolint, Petra ^a,b   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^b   Zeisberger, Steffen M ^a   Behr, Luc ^c   Sammut, Sebastien ^c   Scherman, Jacques ^b   Brokopp, Chad E ^a,b   Schwartländer, Ruth ^d   Vogel, Viola ^d   Vogt, Peter ^b   Grünenfelder, Jürg ^b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^b   Falk, Volkmar ^b   Boss, Andreas ^b   Hoerstrup, Simon P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUOROCHROME; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL ASSAY; CELL FATE; CELL LABELING; CELL TRACKING; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; UTERUS;

EID: 84875312723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057759     Document Type: Article

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