Bioengineering of injectable encapsulated aggregates of pluripotent stem cells for therapy of myocardial infarction

Autor: Shuting Zhao, Zhaobin Xu, Hai Wang, Benjamin E. Reese, Liubov V. Gushchina, Meng Jiang, Pranay Agarwal, Jiangsheng Xu, Mingjun Zhang, Rulong Shen, Zhenguo Liu, Noah Weisleder, Xiaoming He
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13306
Popis: Stem cell therapy of myocardial infarction is hampered by poor survival of injected cells. Here the authors develop injectable aggregates of stem cells differentiated to an early cardiac stage and encapsulated in a biodegradable micromatrix, and show their enhanced therapeutic efficacy in a heart infarction mouse model.
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