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Article References:

Kofidis T, et al. In vitro engineering of heart muscle: Artificial myocardial tissue. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2002; 124(1):63-69.

Leor J and Cohen S. Myocardial Tissue Engineering: Creating a Muscle Patch for a Wounded Heart. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci . 2004; 1015:312-319.

Leor, et al. Cells, scaffolds, and molecules for myocardial tissue engineering. Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2005; 105: 151-163.

Shimizu, et al. Long-Term Survival and Growth of Pulsatile Myocardial Tissue Grafts Engineered by the Layering of Cardiomyocyte Sheets. Tissue Engineering 2006; 12(3):499-507.

Zammaretti P and Jaconi M. Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Regeneration of the Wounded Heart. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2004; 15:430-434.

Zimmermann WH and Eschenhagen T. Cardiac Tissue Engineering for Replacement Therapy. Heart Failure Reviews 2003; 8: 259-269.

Zimmermann WH, et al. Engineered heart tissue for regeneration of diseased hearts. Biomaterials 2004; 25:1639-1647.

Zimmermann WH, et al. Heart Muscle Engineering: An update on cardiac muscle replacement therapy. Cardiovascular Research 2006 Apr 7 (epub)

Website References:

Congestive Heart Failure

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1593

http://www.bcm.edu/tmc/thi/chf.html

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-failure/DS00061

http://health.howstuffworks.com/congestive-heart1.htm

Myocardial Infarctions

http://www.medicinenet.com/heart_attack/article.htm

http://health.howstuffworks.com/heart-attack-ga.htm

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-attack/DS00094/DSECTION=1

 

 

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