Expansion of cardiac progenitors from reprogrammed fibroblasts as potential novel cardiovascular therapy

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Nevin Witman et al. Stem Cell Investig. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 5:3:34.

doi: 10.21037/sci.2016.07.06. eCollection 2016.

¹ 1 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2 Department of Medicine-Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.

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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Expandable Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells Reprogrammed from Fibroblasts.
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