The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 4 , Pages 985-993 , October 2009

Layered implantation of myoblast sheets attenuates adverse cardiac remodeling of the infarcted heart

  • Naosumi Sekiya, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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  • Goro Matsumiya, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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  • Shigeru Miyagawa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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  • Atsuhiro Saito, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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  • Tatsuya Shimizu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Teruo Okano, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Naomasa Kawaguchi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Allied Health Science, Osaka, Japan
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  • Nariaki Matsuura, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Allied Health Science, Osaka, Japan
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  • Yoshiki Sawa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Yoshiki Sawa, MD, PhD, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.

Received 15 May 2008 ,Revised 7 January 2009 ,Accepted 2 February 2009.

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 This work was supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan.

 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00175-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.02.004

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 4 , Pages 985-993 , October 2009

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