The advancing field of cell-based therapy: Insights and lessons from clinical trials

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Telukuntla, Kartik S ^a   Suncion, Viky Y ^a   Schulman, Ivonne H ^a,b   Hare, Joshua M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRECC Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; BONE MARROW DERIVED MONONUCLEAR CELL; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MYOBLAST; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HEART DISEASES; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; STEM CELL;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84891705686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000338     Document Type: Review

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