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Article
Stem cells for cardiac repair: state of the art
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1 Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park and Multimedica Hospital, Milan, Italy
2 Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
3 Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, Philadelphia, PA, USA
4 Kimmel Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2005, 10(3), 3143–3150;
Published: 1 September 2005
Abstract

Stem cell research has generated great excitement over the last few years. In cardiovascular medicine, the possibility to cure heart failure with newly generated cardiomyocytes (CMCs) has sparked the interest of many scientists; as a result, different "ideal" cardiac stem cells were proposed for therapeutic use. We review here the literature in the cardiac stem cell field, which sometimes is "dialectic" in methodology and results.

Keywords
Heart
Cardiac
Stem Cell
Heart Failure
Differentiation
Review
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