Evidence that human cardiac myocytes divide after myocardial infarction.

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Summary

The results challenge the dogma that the adult heart is a postmitotic organ and indicate that the regeneration of myocytes may be a critical component of the increase in muscle mass of the myocardium.

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article
Published
2001-06-07
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Keywords

Cytokinesis, Mitosis, Myocyte, Medicine, Cardiology

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