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Umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells spontaneously express cardiomyogenic traits.
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Sept 2007
Prat-Vidal C, Roura S, Farré J, Gálvez C, Llach A, Molina C E, Hove-Madsen L, Garcia J, Cinca J, Bayes-Genis A
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BACKGROUND: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) has been widely used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The UCB-derived stem cells (UCBSCs) have been proposed as an alternative to bone marrow (BM)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for cardiac cell-based therapy. Herein we studied whether UCBSCs spontaneously exhibit cardiac-specific markers in vitro. METHODS: Human UCBSCs were isolated, expanded, and...
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