Repopulation and Stimulation of Porcine Cardiac Extracellular Matrix to Create Engineered Heart Patches

Heart failure is the main cause of death for both men and women in the United States. The only proven treatment for patients with heart failure is heart transplantation. The goal of this research is to create patches of tissue that could mimic the function of the native heart to repair the damaged p...

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Main Author: Moncada Diaz, Silvia Juliana
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2018
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8806
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9815&context=etd