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Muscle for a damaged heart

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When cardiac muscle cells die during a heart attack, this can lead to heart failure and even death. It now emerges that stem cells of the 'sheet' enveloping the heart can be coaxed to form new muscle after such an event. See Letter p.640

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Figure 1: Recapitulating heart development.

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  1. Vincent Christoffels is in the Department of Anatomy, Embryology and Physiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15 L2-108, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

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Christoffels, V. Muscle for a damaged heart. Nature 474, 585–586 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474585a

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