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NATURE REVIEWS CARDIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 97-105Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2009.227
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
- Clinical Center at the NIH
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Despite promising preclinical data, the treatment of cardiovascular diseases using embryonic, bone-marrow-derived, and skeletal myoblast stem cells has not yet come to fruition within mainstream clinical practice. Major obstacles in cardiac stem cell investigations include the ability to monitor cell engraftment and survival following implantation within the myocardium. Several cellular imaging modalities, including reporter gene and MRI-based tracking approaches, have emerged that provide the means to identify, localize, and monitor stem cells longitudinally in vivo following implantation. This Review will examine the various cardiac cellular tracking modalities, including the combinatorial use of several probes in multimodality imaging, with a focus on data from the past 5 years.
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