Regenerating functional myocardium: Impr
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Taylor, Doris A.; Atkins, B. Zane; Hungspreugs, Pinata; Jones, Thomas R.; Reedy,
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Article
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1998
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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The adult heart lacks reserve cardiocytes and cannot regenerate. Therefore, a large acute myocardial infarction often develops into congestive heart failure. To attempt to prevent this progression, we transplanted skeletal myoblasts into cryoinfarcted myocardium of the same rabbits (autologous trans