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Stem Cell Therapy for the Heart: Blind Alley or Magic Bullet?
Journal of cardiovascular translational research - 1 Dec 2016
Bruyneel Arne A N, Sehgal Apurv, Malandraki-Miller Sophia, Carr Carolyn
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When stressed by ageing or disease, the adult human heart is unable to regenerate, leading to scarring and hypertrophy and eventually heart failure. As a result, stem cell therapy has been proposed as an ultimate therapeutic strategy, as stem cells could limit adverse remodelling and give rise to new cardiomyocytes and vasculature. Unfortunately, the results from clinical trials to date have been largely...
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