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Cellular repopulation of myocardial infarction in patients with sex-mismatched heart transplantation*1

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E HOCHTZEISBERG

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.01.017

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , progenitor cell , transplantation , regeneration (biology) , infarction , stem cell , cardiology , cd68 , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , immunohistochemistry , biology

Recent studies have suggested that human extracardiac progenitor cells are capable of differentiating into cardiomyocytes. In animal studies, myocardial infarction attracted bone marrow stem cells and enhanced their differentiation into cardiomyocytes. Based on these findings, we hypothesised that myocardial infarction stimulates the invasion of progenitor cells and their differentiation into endothelial and cardiac cells in the human heart.

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