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Nitric oxide facilitates cardiomyogenesis in mouse embryonic stem cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Aug 2004
Kanno Shinichi, Kim Peter K M, Sallam Karim, Lei Jing, Billiar Timothy R, Shears Larry L
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Stem cell therapy holds great promise for the replacement of damaged or dysfunctional myocardium. Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to promote embryonic stem (ES) cell differentiation in other systems. We hypothesized that NO, through NO synthase gene transfer or exogenous NO exposure, would promote the differentiation of mouse ES cells into cardiomyocytes (CM). In our study, NO treatment increased both the number...
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