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A promising strategy for the treatment of ischemic heart disease: Mesenchymal stem cell-mediated vascular endothelial growth factor gene transfer in rats.
The Canadian journal of cardiology - 1 Sept 2007
Gao Feng, He Tao, Wang HongBing, Yu ShiQiang, Yi DingHua, Liu WeiYong, Cai ZhenJie
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BACKGROUND: Treatment of ischemic heart disease (IHD) remains a worldwide problem. Gene therapy, and recently, cell transplantation, have made desirable progress. A combination of appropriate stem cells and angiogenic genes appears promising in treating IHD. OBJECTIVE: To study the results of angiogenesis and myogenesis induced by transplantation of the adenovirus carrying human vascular endothelial growth factor...
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