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Rebuilding a damaged heart: long-term survival of transplanted neonatal rat cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction and effec

Authors: Jochen Müller-Ehmsen|||Kirk L Peterson|||Larry Kedes|||Peter Whittaker|||Joan S Dow|||Tiffany I Long|||Peter W Laird|||Robert A Kloner

Journal: Circulation

Publication Type: Journal Article

Date: 2002

DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000013782.76324.92

ID: 11940553

Affiliations:

Affiliations

    Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Calif 90017, USA.|||||||||||||||||||||

Abstract

The long-term effects of cardiac cell transplantation on cardiac function are unknown. Therefore, we tested the survival and functional impact of rat neonatal cardiac myocytes up to 6 months after transplantation into infarcted hearts.