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Cardiac regenerative medicine 2.0

The key challenge in the field of molecular and cell-based therapies for heart regeneration is controlled delivery.

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Figure 1: Effects of current molecular therapies when administered in the infarct regions of the murine heart.

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Soh, BS., Wu, H. & Chien, K. Cardiac regenerative medicine 2.0. Nat Biotechnol 31, 209–211 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2524

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