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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(21):2565-2567; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm435
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Fat is not all bad: how to make good use of adipose tissue

Dirk J. Duncker*, André Uitterdijk and Wim J. Van der Giessen

Experimental Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Cardiovascular Research Institute COEUR, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author. Tel: +31-10-4638066; fax: +31-10-4089494. E-mail address: d.duncker@erasmusmc.nl

This editorial refers to ‘Intracoronary administration of autologous adipose tissue-derived stem cells improves left ventricular function, perfusion, and remodelling after acute myocardial infarction’ by C. Valina et al., on page 2667

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Myocardial infarction (MI) continues to represent a major health problem. Improved healing and/or regeneration of infarcted myocardium by injection of progenitor cells has been proposed as a promising approach to prevent cardiac remodelling or even restore myocardial tissue. Several adult stem cell types have shown efficacy in the preclinical setting, including skeletal myoblasts, umbilical cord cells, bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells, and, more recently, adipose tissue-derived stem cells.1,2 Although the debate as to which cell type (or combinations thereof) is best suited for the treatment of acute MI continues, the mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)3 is particularly interesting. Thus, MSCs have been shown to be multipotent, to be capable of homing to infarcted myocardium, inducing angiogenesis and differentiating into myogenic cells, can be easily expanded ex vivo. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Intracoronary administration of autologous adipose tissue-derived stem cells improves left ventricular function, perfusion, and remodelling after acute myocardial infarction
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