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- Title
Stem cells and their potential relevance to paediatric cardiology.
- Authors
Pillekamp, Frank; Reppel, Michael; Brockmeier, Konrad; Hescheler, Jürgen
- Abstract
Basic scientists, as well as cardiologists, are caught by the idea of curing ischaemic heart disease with cardiac progenitor or stem cells. This short review provides an overview of our current knowledge on the potential use of stem cells for cardiac disease. Since, in infants and children, aetiologies and pathomechanisms of critical cardiac disease are fundamentally different from those in adults, we will also address the question as to whether such young patients could be a therapeutic target at all, and in which respect it may be necessary to view treatment with stem cells from a different stance in the developing organism.
- Subjects
STEM cells; PEDIATRIC cardiology; CARDIOLOGY; CELLS; INTERNAL medicine; CORONARY disease
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1047951106000023