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Evidence That Human Cardiac Myocytes Divide after Myocardial Infarction
7 Jun 2001
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The scarring of the heart that results from myocardial infarction has been interpreted as evidence that the heart is composed of myocytes that are unable to divide. However, recent observations have provided evidence of proliferation of myocytes in the adult heart. Therefore, we studied the extent of mitosis among myocytes after myocardial infarction in humans. METHODS: Samples from the border of the...
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