Open AccessImpaired Myocardium Regeneration With Skeletal Cell Sheets—A Preclinical Trial for Tissue-Engineered Regeneration Therapy
Author(s) -
Shigeru Miyagawa,
Atsuhiro Saito,
Taichi Sakaguchi,
Yasushi Yoshikawa,
Takashi Yamauchi,
Yukiko Imanishi,
Naomasa Kawaguchi,
Noboru Teramoto,
Nariaki Matsuura,
Hidehiro Iida,
Tatsuya Shimizu,
Teruo Okano,
Yoshiki Sawa
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e3181e6f201
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , h&e stain , perfusion , skeletal muscle , diastole , cardiology , regeneration (biology) , fibrosis , myocardial fibrosis , pathology , immunohistochemistry , biology , blood pressure , microbiology and biotechnology
We hypothesized that autologous skeletal cell (SC) sheets regenerate the infract myocardium in porcine heart as a preclinical trial.