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Isolation, Characterization and Differentiation Potential of Cardiac Progenitor Cells in Adult Pigs

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VA and PG were sponsored by National Institute of Molecular Genetics (INGM), Milan, Italy. This work was supported by PUR 2008.

The authors thank Dr. Dellavalle A. for providing suggestion and help in the experiments with rat cardiomyocytes. They are grateful to the Flow Cytometry Resource and Analytical Center, Stem Cell Institute at San Raffaele Hospital for surface marker characterization.

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    A. Vanelli, G. Pennarossa, S. Maffei, M. Rahaman, F. Gandolfi & T. A. L. Brevini

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    G. B. Galvez

  3. Stem Cell Research Institute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

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Vanelli, A., Pennarossa, G., Maffei, S. et al. Isolation, Characterization and Differentiation Potential of Cardiac Progenitor Cells in Adult Pigs. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 8, 706–719 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-011-9339-2

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