Muscle for a damaged heart

Vincent Christoffels ()
Additional contact information
Vincent Christoffels: Embryology and Physiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15 L2-108, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Nature, 2011, vol. 474, issue 7353, 585-586

Abstract: When cardiac muscle cells die during a heart attack, this can lead to heart failure and even death. It now emerges that stem cells of the 'sheet' enveloping the heart can be coaxed to form new muscle after such an event. See Letter p.640

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/474585a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:474:y:2011:i:7353:d:10.1038_474585a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/474585a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().