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edited by Marc S. Penn.[electronic resource]

Humana Press

c2007

xiii, 315 p. ill. (some col.) 27 cm

Contemporary cardiology

Includes bibliographical references and index , The challenge for stem cell therapy: overview of the problem: heart attack and heart failure -- Hematopoietic stem cells for myocardial regeneration -- Mesenchymal stem cells for cardiac therapy -- Multipotent adult progenitor cells -- Mesenchymal progenitor cells for vascular formation and cardiac muscle regeneration -- Umbilical cord blood stem cells for myocardial regeneration and angiogenesis -- Endogenous cardiac stem cells -- Embryonic stem cells for myocardial repair -- Chemokin and homing factor expression in acute myocardial infarction and chronic heart failure -- Stem cell differentiation toward a cardiac myocyte phenotype -- Electrical coupling and/or ventricular tachycardia risk of cell therapy -- Cell therapy for myocardial damage: arrhythmia risk and mechanisms -- Aspects of percutaneous cellular cardiomyoplasty -- Stem cells and myocardial regeneration: open-chest/minimally invasive surgical techniques -- Measures of effective cell based therapies -- Whole bone marrow transplantation -- Clinical angioblast therapy -- Use of skeletal myoblasts for the treatment of chronic heart failure -- Bone marrow and angioblast transplantation -- Strategies for cytokine modification and stem cell mobilization for acute myocardial infarction -- 21 summary and future challenges , Mode of access: World Wide Web

Penn, Marc S