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Cardiomyocytes remuscularize the heart

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The contractility of the infarcted macaque heart is repaired by cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells.

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Figure 1: Summary of the key findings by Liu et al.2.

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  1. Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann is at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany, and the DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Göttingen.,

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W.-H.Z. is co-founder and advisor of Repairon, which is developing tissue engineering solutions for heart failure repair.

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Zimmermann, WH. Cardiomyocytes remuscularize the heart. Nat Biotechnol 36, 592–593 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4186

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