Cardiomyocytes fuse with surrounding noncardiomyocytes and reenter the cell cycle
The concept of the plasticity or transdifferentiation of adult stem cells has been challenged by the phenomenon of cell fusion. In this work, we examined whether neonatal cardiomyocytes fuse with various somatic cells including endothelial cells, cardiac fibroblasts, bone marrow cells, and endotheli...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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The Rockefeller University Press
2004
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2172538/ |