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Bone marrow cells for cardiac regeneration and repair: current status and issues.
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy - 1 Jul 2006
Haider Husnain Kh
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Extensive studies in experimental animal heart models and patients have shown the promise of bone marrow cell (BMC) transplantation as an alternative strategy to the conventional treatment modalities for cardiac repair. 'Stemness' of BMC to adopt cardiac phenotype, their potential as carriers of exogenous therapeutic genes and an inherent ability to express growth factors and cytokines to exert paracrine effects...
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