Transplantation of cardiac Sca-1-positive cells rather than c-Kit-positive cells preserves mitochondrial oxygen consumption of the viable myocardium following myocardial infarction in rats
The cardiosphere-derived cell (CDC) is one of the candidate cells used for cardiac regenerative therapy. Cardiospheres are mixture of cells including c-Kit+ cells, stem cell antigen (Sca)-1+ cells, and other types of cardiac progenitor cells. In this study, we compared the effect of transplantation...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Pharmacological Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1347861319356804 |