A highly sensitive and accurate method to quantify absolute numbers of c-kit+ cardiac stem cells following transplantation in mice

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Hong, Kyung U ^a   Li, Qian Hong ^a   Guo, Yiru ^a   Patton, Nikita S ^a   Moktar, Afsoon ^a   Bhatnagar, Aruni ^a   Bolli, Roberto ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial infarction; Quantitative PCR; Stem cell therapy; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C KIT+ LIN- STEM CELL; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; FEMALE; GENE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RBMY GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECIPIENT; REPERFUSION; STANDARD; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84875485835     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-013-0346-0     Document Type: Article

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