Cardiac stem cell therapy and the promise of heart regeneration

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 689-698

  Garbern, Jessica C ^a   Lee, Richard T ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT STEM CELL; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL POPULATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENGRAFTMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART REGENERATION; HUMAN; MITOSIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SIDE POPULATION CELL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEART DISEASES; HEART MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOBLASTS, CARDIAC; MYOCARDIUM; REGENERATION;

EID: 84878850858     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: 18759777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.05.008     Document Type: Review

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