Molecular Strategy to Reduce In Vivo Collagen Barrier Promotes Entry of NCX1 Positive Inducible Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC^NCX1+) into Ischemic (or Injured) Myocardium

• Wei Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Bo Dai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Zhili Wen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Huang, Bo Dai, Zhili Wen

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Infectious Disease Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

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• Ronald W. Millard,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Xi-Yong Yu,

  Affiliation Medical Research Center of Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Kristin Luther,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Meifeng Xu,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Ting C. Zhao,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Boston University Medical School, Roger William Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Huang-Tian Yang,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhihua Qi,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Kathleen LaSance,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Muhammad Ashraf,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yigang Wang

  * E-mail: yi-gang.wang@uc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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