SPECT and PET to optimize cardiac stem cell therapy

Transplantation of progenitor cells and regeneration enhancement in acute myocardial infarction (TOPCARE-AMI): final 5-year results suggest long-term safety and efficacy

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Quantum Dots in Cell Biology

(2011) Margarida M. Barroso   JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY

Myocardial substrate and route of administration determine acute cardiac retention and lung bio-distribution of cardiosphere-derived cells

(2011) Michael Bonios et al.   JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

10 Years of Intracoronary and Intramyocardial Bone Marrow Stem Cell Therapy of the Heart

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Noninvasive cell-tracking methods

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Constitutive HIF-1α Expression Blunts the Beneficial Effects of Cardiosphere-Derived Cell Therapy in the Heart by Altering Paracrine Factor Balance

(2011) Michael Bonios et al.   Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Time-Dependent Migration of Systemically Delivered Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to the Infarcted Heart

(2010) Ana Carolina M. Assis et al.   CELL TRANSPLANTATION

Intracoronary autologous mononucleated bone marrow cell infusion for acute myocardial infarction: results of the randomized multicenter BONAMI trial

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Progress and prospects: nuclear import of nonviral vectors

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The Role of PET with 13N-Ammonia and 18F-FDG in the Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Metabolism in Patients with Recent AMI and Intracoronary Stem Cell Injection

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Inorganic nanoparticle-based contrast agents for molecular imaging

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Cell distribution after intracoronary bone marrow stem cell delivery in damaged and undamaged myocardium: implications for clinical trials

(2010) Virginie F Forest et al.   Stem Cell Research & Therapy

Autologous Bone-Marrow Mononuclear Cell Transplantation after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Comparison of Two Delivery Techniques

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Long-term myocardial functional improvement after autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells transplantation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: 4 years follow-up

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Influence of bone marrow stem cells on left ventricle perfusion and ejection fraction in patients with acute myocardial infarction of anterior wall: randomized clinical trial: Impact of bone marrow stem cell intracoronary infusion on improvement of microcirculation

(2009) S. Grajek et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Bone marrow cell transplantation improves cardiac, autonomic, and functional indexes in acute anterior myocardial infarction patients (Cardiac Study)

(2009) Massimo F. Piepoli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Use of arginine–glycine–aspartic acid adhesion peptides coupled with a new collagen scaffold to engineer a myocardium-like tissue graft

(2009) Olivier Schussler et al.   Nature Reviews Cardiology

Trypsinization severely perturbs radioiodide transport via membrane Na/I symporter proteolysis: implications for reporter gene imaging

(2009) Kyung-Ho Jung et al.   NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Imaging Gene Expression in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: From Small to Large Animals

(2009) Jürgen K. Willmann et al.   RADIOLOGY

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overestimates Ferumoxide-Labeled Stem Cell Survival After Transplantation in the Heart

(2008) John Terrovitis et al.   CIRCULATION

Serial Noninvasive In Vivo Positron Emission Tomographic Tracking of Percutaneously Intramyocardially Injected Autologous Porcine Mesenchymal Stem Cells Modified for Transgene Reporter Gene Expression

(2008) Mariann Gyöngyösi et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Imaging

Transplantation of adipose derived stromal cells is associated with functional improvement in a rat model of chronic myocardial infarction

(2008) Manuel Mazo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Impact of intracoronary injection of mononuclear bone marrow cells in acute myocardial infarction on left ventricular perfusion and function: a 6-month follow-up gated 99mTc-MIBI single-photon emission computed tomography study

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Effect of Progenitor Cells on Myocardial Perfusion and Metabolism in Patients After Recanalization of a Chronically Occluded Coronary Artery

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Ectopic Expression of the Sodium-Iodide Symporter Enables Imaging of Transplanted Cardiac Stem Cells In Vivo by Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography or Positron Emission Tomography

(2008) John Terrovitis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY