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Hypoxic preconditioning enhances the benefit of cardiac progenitor cell therapy for treatment of myocardial infarction by inducing CXCR4 expression.
Circulation research - 22 May 2009
Tang Yao Liang, Zhu Wuqiang, Cheng Min, Chen Lijuan, Zhang John, Sun Tao, Kishore Raj, Phillips M Ian, Losordo Douglas W, Qin Gangjian
Abstract excerpt
Myocardial infarction rapidly depletes the endogenous cardiac progenitor cell pool, and the inefficient recruitment of exogenously administered progenitor cells limits the effectiveness of cardiac cell therapy. Recent reports indicate that interactions between the CXC chemokine stromal cell-deriv...
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