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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:24
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original article: cardiovascular

Invited commentary

^a Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA

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	Introduction

 
In this very interesting paper from Dr Ray Chiu’s group, Saito and colleagues report that intravenously-injected mouse bone marrow stromal cells successfully engrafted into the bone marrow of rats in the absence of any immunosuppressive therapy. Furthermore, following ligation of one of the rat’s coronary arteries, mouse cells could be detected in the infarcted myocardium. In similarly treated rats that had not undergone coronary ligation, mouse cells could not be identified in the heart. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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