SHIMIZU Tatsuya
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position   Professor
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