Cardiac telocytes were decreased during myocardial infarction and their therapeutic effects for ischaemic heart in rat

• Published in: Journal of cellular and molecular medicine Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 123 - 133
• Main Authors: Zhao, Baoyin, Chen, Shang, Liu, Juanjuan, Yuan, Ziqiang, Qi, Xufeng, Qin, Junwen, Zheng, Xin, Shen, Xiaotao, Yu, Yanhong, Qnin, Thomas J., Chan, John Yeuk‐Hon, Cai, Dongqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2013; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Animals; cardiac telocytes; Cell Count; Cell Death; Cell density; Cellular Microenvironment; Coronary artery; Coronary Occlusion - complications; Female; Fibroblasts; Heart attacks; Homeostasis; Injections, Intramuscular; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial Infarction - etiology; Myocardial Infarction - pathology; Myocardial Infarction - therapy; Myocardium; Myocardium - pathology; Occlusion; Original; Ostomy; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; regeneration; Regeneration - physiology; Science; Stem cells; Stromal Cells - cytology; Stromal Cells - physiology; Stromal Cells - transplantation; United States > US

Recently, cardiac telocytes were found in the myocardium. However, the functional role of cardiac telocytes and possible changes in the cardiac telocyte population during myocardial infarction in the myocardium are not known. In this study, the role of the recently identified cardiac telocytes in my...