Regenerative therapy for cardiovascular disease

Translational Research - Tập 163 - Trang 307-320 - 2014
Otmar Pfister1,2, Giacomo Della Verde1, Ronglih Liao3, Gabriela M. Kuster1,2
1Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
3Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass

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