Effective Cardiac Myocyte Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Requires VEGF

• Lei Ye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Ye, Sophia Zhang

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Sophia Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Ye, Sophia Zhang

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Lucas Greder,

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• James Dutton,

  Affiliations Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Susan A. Keirstead,

  Affiliations Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Mike Lepley,

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Liying Zhang,

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Dan Kaufman,

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Jianyi Zhang

  * E-mail: zhang047@umn.edu

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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