SHIMIZU Tatsuya
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position   Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Layered implantation of myoblast sheets attenuates adverse cardiac remodeling of the infarcted 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(4),pp.985-93
Author and coauthor SEKIYA Naosumi†, MATSUMIYA Goro, MIYAGAWA Shigeru, SAITO Atsuhiro, SHIMIZU Tatsuya, OKANO Teruo, KAWAGUCHI Naomasa, MATSUURA Nariaki, SAWA Yoshiki*
Publication date 2009/10
Summary Implantation of three- and five-layered myoblast sheets yields favorable results, with better improvement of cardiac function, induction of angiogenesis, more elastic fibers, and less fibrosis. Thus, layered myoblast sheets, in optimal numbers, may attenuate adverse cardiac remodeling of the infarcted heart.
DOI 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.02.004
PMID 19769884