Stem cells for cardiac repair: state of the art.
Stem cell research has generated great excitement over the last few years. In cardiovascular medicine, the possibility to cure heart failure with newly generated cardiomyocytes (CMCs) has sparked the interest of many scientists; as a result, different "ideal" cardiac stem cells were proposed for therapeutic use. We review here the literature in the cardiac stem cell field, which sometimes is "dialectic" in methodology and results.
Condorelli
Gianluigi
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Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park and Multimedica Hospital, Milan, Italy. gcondorelli@ucsd.edu
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D045164:Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*