In the future, cardiovascular stem cell therapy may be administered to all patients. Here, we review what has happened and look at where we are going. Stem cells are defined as cells that are said ...

Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...

Endothelial cells are, by number, one of the most abundant cell types in the heart and active players in cardiac physiology and pathology. Coronary angiogenesis plays a vital role in maintaining ...

Progress in three-dimensional cell culture and microfluidic devices has enabled the generation of human cardiac models that faithfully recapitulate key aspects of human physiology. In this review, we ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

w3 w4 Endothelial cell dysfunction is a key step in the initiation of atherosclerosis. The predilection for plaque formation at sites of arterial branching or bifurcation has identified disturbed ...