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Olaf Bergmann1, Thomas Braun2

  • 1From the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (O.B.); and Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany (T.B.).

Circulation Research
|February 4, 2016
PubMed
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Keywords:
Editorialscell cycle progression, mousecyclin A2myocardiummyocytes, cardiacstem cells

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