Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (37): 6064-6068.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.37.029

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Cardiac stem cells in cardiac tissue engineering: present and future

Li Run-qin, Huang Chun   

  1. Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College, Chongqing 404120, China
  • Revised:2014-08-03 Online:2014-09-03 Published:2014-09-03
  • Contact: Huang Chun, Master, Chief physician, Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College, Chongqing 404120, China
  • About author:Li Run-qin, Studying for doctorate, Associate professor, Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College, Chongqing 404120, China
  • Supported by:

    the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Educational Committee, No. KJ101804

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: For a long time, the myocardium of adult mammalians is the terminally differentiated tissue with no regeneration capacity. If damaged, myocardial cells will be replaced by fibrous connective tissue.
OBJECTIVE: To rediscover the myocardial cells and to do a review for cardiac stem cells, in order to define the existence of myocardial cells.
METHODS: A computer-based online research of CNKI and PubMed databases was performed to collect articles published between 2003 and 2014 with the key words of “cardiac stem cells, stem cells, cardiac regeneration” in Chinese and English, respectively. There were 82 articles after the initial survey, and finally 40 articles were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Cardiac stem cells exist in the heart, and some surface markers of cardiac stem cells have been discovered. Cardiac stem cells for some diseases with myocardial cell injury have opened up a new way. Because of the small number of myocardial cells, how to purification, culture, identification and proliferation will be further studied to meet the need for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Cardiac stem cell research will open a new approach for cardiac tissue engineering.


中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:干细胞;骨髓干细胞;造血干细胞;脂肪干细胞;肿瘤干细胞;胚胎干细胞;脐带脐血干细胞;干细胞诱导;干细胞分化;组织工程


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Key words: stem cells, myocardium, regeneration, review

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