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Bone Marrow-Derived Cell Therapy Stimulates Endogenous Cardiomyocyte Progenitors and Promotes Cardiac Repair

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Stem and progenitor cell-based therapy in ischaemic heart disease: promise, uncertainties, and challenges

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Genetically modified adipose tissue−derived mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing CXCR4 display increased motility, invasiveness, and homing to bone marrow of NOD/SCID mice

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Characteristics, outcomes, and predictors of mortality at 3 months and 1 year in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure

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CXCR4 positive bone mesenchymal stem cells migrate to human endothelial cell stimulated by ox-LDL via SDF-1α/CXCR4 signaling axis

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Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Promotes Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Migration to the Ischemic Myocardium via Upregulation of Stromal Cell-Derived Factor-1α

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IGF-1–Overexpressing Mesenchymal Stem Cells Accelerate Bone Marrow Stem Cell Mobilization via Paracrine Activation of SDF-1α/CXCR4 Signaling to Promote Myocardial Repair

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Epidemiology and risk stratification in acute heart failure

(2007) Gregg C. Fonarow   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

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