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BSCR Autumn Meeting Abstracts, 2009
Myocardial energetics and redox in health and disease
022 Hypoxic preconditioning of cardiosphere-derived cells to increase retention in the infarcted heart
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Myocardial infarction results in the formation of a hypoxic scar region. Resident stem cells have been discovered in the adult heart that may be expanded in vitro via the formation of cardiospheres. Administration of these cardiosphere-derived cells (CDC) to the infarcted heart has been …