Evidence for Fusion Between Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Cells
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Evidence for fusion between cardiac and skeletal muscle cells.
Cardiomyoplasty with skeletal myoblasts may benefit cardiac function after infarction. Recent reports indicate that adult stem cells can fuse with other cell types. Because myoblasts are "fusigenic" cells by nature, we hypothesized they might be particularly likely to fuse with cardiomyocytes. To test this, neonatal rat cardiomyocytes labeled with LacZ and green fluorescent protein (GFP) were c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/01.res.0000125294.04612.81