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Cardiac myxoma cells exhibit embryonic endocardial stem cell features.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2006
Orlandi A, Ciucci A, Ferlosio A, Genta R, Spagnoli L G, Gabbiani G
Abstract excerpt
The origin of myxoma, the most frequent tumour of the heart, remains uncertain. Previous phenotypic characterizations have shown heterogeneous results and the most recent hypothesis suggests that cardiac myxoma originates from a primitive pluripotential cardiogenic cell. We investigated the expression of actin isoforms in 30 left atrial myxomas by immunohistochemistry and in eight consecutive tumours by RT-PCR....
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