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Generation of Murine Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Aggregates Based on ES-Cell-Programming in Combination with Myh6-Promoter-Selection
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Generation of Murine Cardiac Pacemaker Cell Aggregates Based on ES-Cell-Programming in Combination with Myh6-Promoter-Selection

Published on: February 17, 2015

[The programming of cardiac pacemakers--wish and reality]

W Irnich1, E Krämer, R Müller

  • 1Institut für Medizinische Technik, Universität Giessen.

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
|April 19, 1991
PubMed

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