c-kit+ Cardiac Stem Cells Alleviate Post-Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Dysfunction Despite Poor Engraftment and Negligible Retention in the Recipient Heart

Kyung U. Hong; Yiru Guo; Qian-Hong Li; Pengxiao Cao; Tareq Al-Maqtari; Bathri N. Vajravelu; Junjie Du; Michael J. Book; Xiaoping Zhu; Yibing Nong; Aruni Bhatnagar; Roberto Bolli

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096725

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c-kit+ Cardiac Stem Cells Alleviate Post-Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Dysfunction Despite Poor Engraftment and Negligible Retention in the Recipient Heart

Kyung U. Hong ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyung U. Hong, Yiru Guo

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Yiru Guo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kyung U. Hong, Yiru Guo

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Qian-Hong Li,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Pengxiao Cao,

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Tareq Al-Maqtari,

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Bathri N. Vajravelu,

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Junjie Du,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Michael J. Book,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Xiaoping Zhu,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Yibing Nong,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Aruni Bhatnagar,

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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Roberto Bolli

* E-mail: rbolli@louisville.edu

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Diabetes and Obesity Center, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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c-kit+ Cardiac Stem Cells Alleviate Post-Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Dysfunction Despite Poor Engraftment and Negligible Retention in the Recipient Heart

Kyung U. Hong,
Yiru Guo,
Qian-Hong Li,
Pengxiao Cao,
Tareq Al-Maqtari,
Bathri N. Vajravelu,
Junjie Du,
Michael J. Book,
Xiaoping Zhu,
Yibing Nong

Published: May 7, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096725

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