Konrad Urbanek

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Top papers

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1 Adult cardiac stem cells are multipotent and support myocardial regeneration. Cell 2003 18.09
2 Chimerism of the transplanted heart. N Engl J Med 2002 8.69
3 Human cardiac stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 7.76
4 Stem cells in the dog heart are self-renewing, clonogenic, and multipotent and regenerate infarcted myocardium, improving cardiac function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 4.13
5 Cardiac stem cell and myocyte aging, heart failure, and insulin-like growth factor-1 overexpression. Circ Res 2004 4.13
6 Cardiac stem cells delivered intravascularly traverse the vessel barrier, regenerate infarcted myocardium, and improve cardiac function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 3.64
7 Bone marrow cells differentiate in cardiac cell lineages after infarction independently of cell fusion. Circ Res 2004 3.39
8 Local activation or implantation of cardiac progenitor cells rescues scarred infarcted myocardium improving cardiac function. Circ Res 2008 3.07
9 Bone marrow cells adopt the cardiomyogenic fate in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 3.06
10 Cardiomyogenesis in the adult human heart. Circ Res 2010 2.79
11 Diabetes promotes cardiac stem cell aging and heart failure, which are prevented by deletion of the p66shc gene. Circ Res 2006 2.71
12 Clonality of mouse and human cardiomyogenesis in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 2.60
13 Senescence and death of primitive cells and myocytes lead to premature cardiac aging and heart failure. Circ Res 2003 2.45
14 Human cardiac stem cell differentiation is regulated by a mircrine mechanism. Circulation 2011 2.38
15 Activation of cardiac progenitor cells reverses the failing heart senescent phenotype and prolongs lifespan. Circ Res 2008 2.31
16 Cardiac progenitor cells and biotinylated insulin-like growth factor-1 nanofibers improve endogenous and exogenous myocardial regeneration after infarction. Circulation 2009 2.30
17 Identification of a coronary vascular progenitor cell in the human heart. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 2.23
18 Notch1 regulates the fate of cardiac progenitor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 2.22
19 Formation of large coronary arteries by cardiac progenitor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 2.05
20 The young mouse heart is composed of myocytes heterogeneous in age and function. Circ Res 2007 1.69
21 Nuclear targeting of Akt enhances ventricular function and myocyte contractility. Circ Res 2005 1.62
22 Anthracycline cardiomyopathy is mediated by depletion of the cardiac stem cell pool and is rescued by restoration of progenitor cell function. Circulation 2009 1.62
23 Concise review: stem cells, myocardial regeneration, and methodological artifacts. Stem Cells 2006 1.34
24 Spontaneous calcium oscillations regulate human cardiac progenitor cell growth. Circ Res 2009 1.32
25 bcl-2 overexpression promotes myocyte proliferation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 1.22
26 Cardiac stem cells and myocardial disease. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2008 1.18
27 Myocardial aging--a stem cell problem. Basic Res Cardiol 2005 1.17
28 Progenitor cells from the explanted heart generate immunocompatible myocardium within the transplanted donor heart. Circ Res 2009 1.06
29 Doxorubicin induces senescence and impairs function of human cardiac progenitor cells. Basic Res Cardiol 2013 0.99
30 Effects of sildenafil on the gastrocnemius and cardiac muscles of rats in a model of prolonged moderate exercise training. PLoS One 2013 0.86
31 The human heart: a self-renewing organ. Clin Transl Sci 2008 0.86
32 The telomere-telomerase axis and the heart. Antioxid Redox Signal 2006 0.86
33 Cancer treatment-induced cardiotoxicity: a cardiac stem cell disease? Cardiovasc Hematol Agents Med Chem 2010 0.84
34 Cardioprotection by Targeting the Pool of Resident and Extracardiac Progenitors. Curr Drug Targets 2015 0.75