Pharmacological Therapy in the Heart as an Alternative to Cellular Therapy: A Place for the Brain Natriuretic Peptide?
The discovery that stem cells isolated from different organs have the ability to differentiate into mature beating cardiomyocytes has fostered considerable interest in developing cellular regenerative therapies to treat cardiac diseases associated with the loss of viable myocardium. Clinical studies...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2016-01-01
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Series: | Stem Cells International |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5961342 |