Role of cardiac stem cells in cardiac pathophysiology: a paradigm shift in human myocardial biology.

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Published in Circ Res on September 30, 2011

Authors

Annarosa Leri1, Jan Kajstura, Piero Anversa

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Anesthesia and Medicine, and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

CArdiosphere-Derived aUtologous Stem CElls to Reverse ventricUlar dySfunction (CADUCEUS) | NCT00893360

Cardiac Stem Cell Infusion in Patients With Ischemic CardiOmyopathy (SCIPIO) (SCIPIO) | NCT00474461

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