Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Pregnancy Initiate Time-Dependent and Robust Signs of Up-Regulation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells

Fetal Cells Traffic to Injured Maternal Myocardium and Undergo Cardiac Differentiation

(2011) Rina J. Kara et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Endogenous Cardiac Stem Cell Activation by Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1/Hepatocyte Growth Factor Intracoronary Injection Fosters Survival and Regeneration of the Infarcted Pig Heart

(2011) Georgina M. Ellison et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

C-kit+ CD45− cells found in the adult human heart represent a population of endothelial progenitor cells

(2010) Joakim Sandstedt et al.   BASIC RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY

The promotion of myocardial repair by the sequential delivery of IGF-1 and HGF from an injectable alginate biomaterial in a model of acute myocardial infarction

(2010) Emil Ruvinov et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Ischaemia/reperfusion induced cardiac stem cell homing to the injured myocardium by stimulating stem cell factor expression via NF-κB pathway

(2010) Junli Guo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY

Islet-1 Cells Are Cardiac Progenitors Present During the Entire Lifespan: From the Embryonic Stage to Adulthood

(2010) Rami Genead et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT

Human cardiomyocyte progenitor cell transplantation preserves long-term function of the infarcted mouse myocardium

(2009) Anke M. Smits et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

CD117-positive Cells of the Heart: Progenitor Cells or Mast Cells?

(2009) Yan Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY

Passive mechanical properties of cardiac tissues in heart hypertrophy during pregnancy

(2009) Adolfo Virgen-Ortiz et al.   Journal of Physiological Sciences

Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Renewal in Humans

(2009) Olaf Bergmann et al.   SCIENCE

Early first trimester human embryonic cardiac Islet-1 progenitor cells and cardiomyocytes: Immunohistochemical and electrophysiological characterization

(2009) Rami Genead et al.   Stem Cell Research

Characterization of Long-Term Cultured c-kit+ Cardiac Stem Cells Derived From Adult Rat Hearts

(2009) Shinka Miyamoto et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT

Cardiac stem cells in the real world

(2008) Julia Pouly et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

TGF-β1 induces efficient differentiation of human cardiomyocyte progenitor cells into functional cardiomyocytes in vitro

(2008) Marie-José Goumans et al.   Stem Cell Research