SHIMIZU Tatsuya
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position   Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Skeletal myoblast sheet transplantation improves the diastolic function of a pressure-overloaded right heart.
Journal Formal name:The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Abbreviation:J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
ISSN code:(1097-685X)0022-5223(Linking)
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Publisher Elsevier
Volume, Issue, Page 138(2),pp.460-7
Author and coauthor HOASHI Takaya†, MATSUMIYA Goro, MIYAGAWA Shigeru, ICHIKAWA Hajime, UENO Takayoshi, ONO Masamichi, SAITO Atsuhiro, SHIMIZU Tatsuya, OKANO Teruo, KAWAGUCHI Naomasa, MATSUURA Nariaki, SAWA Yoshiki*
Publication date 2009/08
Summary Skeletal myoblast sheet transplantation improved the diastolic dysfunction and suppressed ventricular fibrosis with increased capillary density in a rat model of a pressure-overloaded right ventricle. This method might become a novel strategy for the myocardial regeneration of right ventricular failure in patients with congenital heart disease.
DOI 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.02.018
PMID 19619796