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Cardiomyocyte Proliferation: A Platform for Mammalian Cardiac Repair
23 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
Permanent loss of heart muscle cells, cardiomyocytes, is a major mechanism resulting in ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. Potential solutions to this problem could be either to stimulate the heart to generate new cells by inducing existing cardiomyocytes to divide or to activate or deliver stem cells/ progenitor cells to multiply and subsequently differentiate into cardiomyocytes. Utilizing in vitro and...
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