OKANO Teruo
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position  
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Longer preservation of cardiac performance by sheet-shaped myoblast implantation in dilated cardiomyopathic hamsters.
Journal Formal name:Cardiovascular research
Abbreviation:Cardiovasc Res
ISSN code:(0008-6363)0008-6363(Linking)
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 69(2),pp.466-75
Author and coauthor KONDOH Haruhiko†, SAWA Yoshiki*, MIYAGAWA Shigeru, SAKAKISDA-KITAGAWA Satoru, MEMON Imran A., KAWAGUCHI Naomasa, MATSUURA Nariaki, SHIMIZU Tatsuya, OKANO Teruo, MATSUDA Hikaru
Publication date 2006/02
Summary Sheet-shaped myoblast graft implantation improved cardiac performance and prolonged life expectancy, associated with a reduction in myocardial fibrosis and re-organization of the cytoskeletal proteins in DCM hamsters. Thus, sheet-shaped autologous myoblast graft implantation may induce restoration of the heart in DCM.
DOI 10.1016/j.cardiores.2005.11.005
PMID 16423569