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Comment
. 2005 Apr;3(4):e131.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030131.

Alchemy and the new age of cardiac muscle cell biology

Kenneth R Chien  1
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Comment

Alchemy and the new age of cardiac muscle cell biology

Kenneth R Chien. PLoS Biol. 2005 Apr.

Abstract

Several studies have claimed to identify cardiac stem cells. But what criteria do such cells have to fulfil before we can be confident about their true potential?

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Figure 1. Islet-1-Positive Cardioblast in the Right Ventricular Chamber of the Neonatal Rat Heart
Islet-1 nuclear staining depicted in green, nuclear staining in blue, myocyte marker staining in red. The left panel shows triple staining; the right panel shows single staining for Islet-1 expression.
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