Ou L, Li W, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Jie S, Kong D, Steinhoff G, Ma N. Animal models of cardiac disease and stem cell therapy.
Open Cardiovasc Med J 2010;
4:231-9. [PMID:
21258568 PMCID:
PMC3024564 DOI:
10.2174/1874192401004010231]
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Abstract
Animal models that mimic cardiovascular diseases are indispensable tools for understanding the mechanisms underlying the diseases at the cellular and molecular level. This review focuses on various methods in preclinical research to create small animal models of cardiac diseases, such as myocardial infarction, dilated cardiomyopathy, heart failure, myocarditis and cardiac hypertrophy, and the related stem cell treatment for these diseases.
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