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SUBMITTER: Williams C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4504755 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Williams Corin C Sullivan Kelly K Black Lauren D LD
Advanced healthcare materials 20150518 10
Stimulating or maintaining the proliferative capacity of postnatal mammalian cardiomyocytes is a major challenge to cardiac regeneration. Previously, it is found that fetal cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) can promote neonatal rat cardiomyocyte proliferation in vitro better than neonatal or adult ECM. It is hypothesized that partial digestion of adult ECM (PD-ECM) would liberate less crosslinked components that promote cardiomyocyte proliferation, similar to fetal ECM. Neonatal rat cardiac cel ...[more]