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SUBMITTER: Radisic M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3786696 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mayo Clinic proceedings 20130801 8
Heart failure after a myocardial infarction continues to be a leading killer in the Western world. Currently, there are no therapies that effectively prevent or reverse the cardiac damage and negative left ventricular remodeling process that follows a myocardial infarction. Because the heart has limited regenerative capacity, there has been considerable effort to develop new therapies that could repair and regenerate the myocardium. Although cell transplantation alone was initially studied, more ...[more]