Bone Marrow Cell Therapy Ameliorates and Reverses Chagasic Cardiomyopathy in a Mouse Model
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- 15 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 197 (4) , 544-547
- https://doi.org/10.1086/526793
Abstract
Chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy, which is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a major cause of heart failure in Latin America. It is a diseKeywords
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