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SUBMITTER: Turner D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7202446 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Turner Darren D Rieger Angela C AC Balkan Wayne W Hare Joshua M JM
Rambam Maimonides medical journal 20200429 2
Patients have an ongoing unmet need for effective therapies that reverse the cellular and functional damage associated with heart damage and disease. The discovery that ~1%-2% of adult cardiomyocytes turn over per year provided the impetus for treatments that stimulate endogenous repair mechanisms that augment this rate. Preclinical and clinical studies provide evidence that cell-based therapy meets these therapeutic criteria. Recent and ongoing studies are focused on determining which cell type ...[more]