EPO and super-EPO: erythropoietins direct neoangiogenesis by cardiac progenitor cells.

Schneider, Michael D · Cell Stem Cell · 2011

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Abstract

Erythropoietin, the red blood cell-making cytokine, is also a potential cytoprotective agent in heart disease. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Hoch et al. (2011) use two heart failure models, including chemotherapeutic cardiotoxicity, to reveal a mechanistic connection between reduced cardiomyocyte production of erythropoietin and neoangiogenesis by cardiac progenitors.

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