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Heart Repair With Myocytes Why Not Take Your Own?

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CIRCULATION RESEARCH
Volume 124, Issue 6, Pages 843-845

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.314336

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  1. European Research Council (ERC AG IndivuHeart)
  2. German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
  3. German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  4. Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
  5. German Research Foundation [DFG We 5620/3-1]

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The human heart has a very limited capacity to regenerate heart muscle cells, and any major loss ultimately leads to heart failure. Although current pharmacotherapy slows down heart failure progression and improves survival prognosis, the only curative treatment except heart transplantation would be replacement of lost myocytes by new ones, the ultimate goal of regenerative cardiology.

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