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Heart repair via cardiomyocyte-secreted vesicles

The sustained delivery of extracellular vesicles, secreted by induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes, through a hydrogel patch promotes cardiac recovery after myocardial infarction in rats.

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Fig. 1: The delivery of cardiac-derived extracellular vesicles via a hydrogel patch enhances heart repair.

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Heallen, T.R., Martin, J.F. Heart repair via cardiomyocyte-secreted vesicles. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 271–272 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0239-5

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