The Promise of Cardiac Regeneration by In Situ Lineage Conversion

Young-Jae Nam1, Nikhil V Munshi1

  • 1From Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Y.-J.N.); Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (N.V.M.); McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (N.V.M.); Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (N.V.M.); and Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (N.V.M.). young-jae.nam@vanderbilt.edu nikhil.munshi@utsouthwestern.edu.

Circulation
|March 8, 2017
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