Improvement of Cardiac Stem Cell Sheet Therapy for Chronic Ischemic Injury by Adding Endothelial Progenitor Cell Transplantation: Analysis of Layer-Specific Regional Cardiac Function

Longitudinal left ventricular 2D strain is superior to ejection fraction in predicting myocardial recovery and symptomatic improvement after aortic valve implantation

(2012) Aleksander Kempny et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Intracoronary cardiosphere-derived cells for heart regeneration after myocardial infarction (CADUCEUS): a prospective, randomised phase 1 trial

(2012) Raj R Makkar et al.   LANCET

VEGF/SDF-1 promotes cardiac stem cell mobilization and myocardial repair in the infarcted heart

(2011) Jun-Ming Tang et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Induced Adipocyte Cell-Sheet Ameliorates Cardiac Dysfunction in a Mouse Myocardial Infarction Model: A Novel Drug Delivery System for Heart Failure

(2011) Y. Imanishi et al.   CIRCULATION

Human Cardiac Stem Cell Differentiation Is Regulated by a Mircrine Mechanism

(2011) Toru Hosoda et al.   CIRCULATION

Layer-specific analysis of myocardial function for accurate prediction of reversible ischaemic dysfunction in intermediate viability defined by contrast-enhanced MRI

(2011) M. Becker et al.   HEART

Cardiac stem cells in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (SCIPIO): initial results of a randomised phase 1 trial

(2011) Roberto Bolli et al.   LANCET

Cardiac Cell Sheet Transplantation Improves Damaged Heart Function via Superior Cell Survival in Comparison with Dissociated Cell Injection

(2011) Hidekazu Sekine et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Transplantation of cardiac progenitor cell sheet onto infarcted heart promotes cardiogenesis and improves function

(2010) Liudmila Zakharova et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Composite Cell Sheets: A Further Step Toward Safe and Effective Myocardial Regeneration by Cardiac Progenitors Derived From Embryonic Stem Cells

(2010) A. Bel et al.   CIRCULATION

Intracoronary Administration of Cardiac Progenitor Cells Alleviates Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Rats With a 30-Day-Old Infarction

(2010) Xian-Liang Tang et al.   CIRCULATION

A Dynamic Notch Injury Response Activates Epicardium and Contributes to Fibrosis Repair

(2010) Jamie L. Russell et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

c-kitpos GATA-4 High Rat Cardiac Stem Cells Foster Adult Cardiomyocyte Survival through IGF-1 Paracrine Signalling

(2010) Nanako Kawaguchi et al.   PLoS One

Impaired Myocardium Regeneration With Skeletal Cell Sheets—A Preclinical Trial for Tissue-Engineered Regeneration Therapy

(2010) Shigeru Miyagawa et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease: A Comparison of Methods of Delivery

(2010) Nabil Dib et al.   Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Cell Sheet-Based Myocardial Tissue Engineering: New Hope for Damaged Heart Rescue

(2009) Tatsuya Shimizu et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Impact of infarct transmurality on layer-specific impairment of myocardial function: a myocardial deformation imaging study

(2009) M. Becker et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Transplantation of Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Improves Myocardial Diastolic Function: Strain Rate Imaging in a Model of Hibernating Myocardium

(2009) Carsten Schneider et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

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

(2009) Na Li et al.   STEM CELLS

Advanced speckle tracking echocardiography allowing a three-myocardial layer-specific analysis of deformation parameters

(2008) U. Adamu et al.   European Journal of Echocardiography

Fibroblast sheets co-cultured with endothelial progenitor cells improve cardiac function of infarcted hearts

(2008) Hiroshi Kobayashi et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

The Extent of Microvascular Damage During Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Is Superior to Other Known Indexes of Post-Infarct Reperfusion in Predicting Left Ventricular Remodeling

(2008) Leonarda Galiuto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Epicardial progenitors contribute to the cardiomyocyte lineage in the developing heart

(2008) Bin Zhou et al.   NATURE