The transplant of cardiac cells and myoblast skeletal cells in myocardial infarction

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the functional results of adult skeletal muscle cell and cardiac cell transplantations in the hearts of rats that have suffered an infarct. METHOD: An infarct of the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle was provoked, by left lateral thoracotomy and posterior legation of the...

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Published in:	Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Main Authors:	Luiz César Guarita Souza, Roberto G. de Carvalho, Bruno Pouzet, Jean Thomas Vilquin, Isabelle Garcin, Philippe Menasché, Paulo S. Brofman, Marcio Scorsin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2002-12-01
Subjects:	Cell transplantation Myocardial infarction Heart Myocardium
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382002000400006&tlng=en