Advances in Cell Transplantation Therapy for Diseased Myocardium

The overall objective of cell transplantation is to repopulate postinfarction scar with contractile cells, thus improving systolic function, and to prevent or to regress the remodeling process. Direct implantation of isolated myoblasts, cardiomyocytes, and bone-marrow-derived cells has shown prospec...

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Main Authors: Outi M. Villet, Antti Siltanen, Tommi Pätilä, M. Ali A. Mahar, Antti Vento, Esko Kankuri, Ari Harjula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Stem Cells International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/679171