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In developed countries, in which people have nutrient-rich diets, convenient environments, and access to numerous medications, the disease paradigm has changed. Nowadays, heart failure is one of the major causes...
This study was designed to investigate the increase in the number of circulating CD34+ cells after acute myocardial infarction (MI) and the differentiation of these cells to cardiomyocytes after transplantation...
Recent studies have shown that side population (SP) cells, isolated from adult myocardium, represent a distinct cardiac progenitor cell population that exhibits functional cardiomyogenic differentiation. However, information on the intrinsic...
Muscle cell transplantation may delay or prevent cardiac dilation in dilated cardiomyopathy. The present study was designed to compare the effects of the heart function of smooth muscle cell (SMCs)...
OBJECTIVE: We wanted to evaluate the effect of the number of diffusion-sensitizing gradient directions on the image quality for evaluating myocardial anisotropy and fiber tracking by using in vitro diffusion...
Cardiac fibrosis occurs after pathological stimuli to the cardiovascular system. One of the most important factors that contribute to cardiac fibrosis is angiotensin II (Ang II). Accumulating studies have suggested...