Concise review: The role of C-kit expressing cells in heart repair at the neonatal and adult stage

Stem Cells

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1701-1712

  Hesse, Michael ^a   Fleischmann, Bernd K ^a   Kotlikoff, Michael I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; c kit; Stem cell plasticity; Tissue regeneration; Tissue specific stem cells; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CELL LOSS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CYTOKINESIS; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MELANOCYTE; MITOSIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGONIUM; ADULT STEM CELL; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART; HEART DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; REGENERATION;

EID: 84902589235     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1696     Document Type: Review

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