Imaging: guiding the clinical translation of cardiac stem cell therapy

PK Nguyen, F Lan, Y Wang, JC Wu - Circulation research, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
Stem cells have been touted as the holy grail of medical therapy, with promises to
regenerate cardiac tissue, but it appears the jury is still out on this novel therapy. Using …

Current perspectives on imaging cardiac stem cell therapy

JC Wu, MR Abraham… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
Molecular imaging is a new discipline that makes possible the noninvasive visualization of
cellular and molecular processes in living subjects. In the field of cardiovascular …

Overview of stem cells and imaging modalities for cardiovascular diseases

GY Chang, X Xie, JC Wu - Journal of nuclear cardiology, 2006 - Springer
Stem cell therapy is emerging as a promising approach to treat heart diseases.
Considerable evidence from experimental studies and initial clinical trials suggests that stem …

Role of imaging in cardiac stem cell therapy

SLMA Beeres, FM Bengel, J Bartunek, DE Atsma… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - jacc.org
Stem cell therapy has emerged as a potential therapeutic option for cell death-related heart
diseases. Preclinical and a number of early phase human studies suggested that cell …

Imaging in cardiac cell-based therapy: in vivo tracking of the biological fate of therapeutic cells

HQ Ly, JV Frangioni, RJ Hajjar - Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular …, 2008 - nature.com
Clinical trials in cardiac cell-based therapy (CBT) have demonstrated the immense potential
of stem progenitor cells (SPCs) to repair the injured myocardium. The bulk of evidence so far …

Comparison of imaging techniques for tracking cardiac stem cell therapy

SJ Zhang, JC Wu - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
A growing number of exciting animal and preclinical studies are beginning to reveal the
immense potential in stem cell–based therapies, particularly in the area of treating …

Stem cell labeling for noninvasive delivery and tracking in cardiovascular regenerative therapy

Y Fu, DL Kraitchman - Expert review of cardiovascular therapy, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Clinical and basic scientific studies of stem cell-based therapies have shown promising
results for cardiovascular diseases. Despite a rapid transition from animal studies to clinical …

Cell delivery in cardiac regenerative therapy

KH Wu, ZC Han, XM Mo, B Zhou - Ageing research reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in the clinical application of stem cells as a novel therapeutic
approach for treatment of myocardial infarction and prevention of subsequent heart failure …

Stem cell-based therapy: Improving myocardial cell delivery

DAM Feyen, R Gaetani, PA Doevendans… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Stem cell-based therapies form an exciting new class of medicine that attempt to provide the
body with the building blocks required for the reconstruction of damaged organs. However …

[HTML][HTML] Cell tracking in cardiac repair: what to image and how to image

A Ruggiero, DLJ Thorek, J Guenoun, GP Krestin… - European …, 2012 - Springer
Stem cell therapies hold the great promise and interest for cardiac regeneration among
scientists, clinicians and patients. However, advancement and distillation of a standard …