Cardiac Connections — The Antiarrhythmic Solution?  

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Duffy, Heather S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 13 (Mar. 2008), page 1397.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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At a recent meeting to discuss cell-based therapies for cardiovascular disease, a colleague asked, "With intracardiac devices being so successful, why would anybody want to put unknown cells into sick hearts?" Although horse-and-buggy drivers probably made similar comments about the first automobiles, the question bears consideration. After injury, myocardial regeneration occurs slowly, if at all. The hypothesis behind cell-based therapy for cardiac injury is that adding healthy cells to injured myocardium increases the rate of recovery1 and, in so doing, improves cardiac function and prevents life-threatening arrhythmias. Yet, to date, success with cell therapies has been limited, and under some . . .

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