Sca-1+ Cardiac Stem Cells Mediate Acute Cardioprotection via Paracrine Factor SDF-1 following Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion

• Chunyan Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Hongmei Gu,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Qing Yu,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Mariuxi C. Manukyan,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jeffrey A. Poynter,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Meijing Wang

  * E-mail: meiwang@iupui.edu

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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