Functional Multipotency of Stem Cells: What Do We Need from Them in the Heart?

• Main Authors: Pablo Díez Villanueva (Author), Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz (Author), Alberto Núñez García (Author), María Eugenia Fernández Santos (Author), Pedro L. Sánchez (Author), Francisco Fernández-Avilés (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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After more than ten years of human research in the field of cardiac regenerative medicine, application of stem cells in different phases of ischemic heart disease has come to age. Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that stem cell therapy can improve cardiac recovery after the acute phase o...