The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 233-243 , February 2002

A novel small animal model of left ventricular tissue engineering

  • Alexander S Krupnick, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ASK and DK contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.
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  • Daniel Kreisel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ASK and DK contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.
    • ,
  • Friederike H Engels, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ,
  • Wilson Y Szeto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ,
  • Theodore Plappert, CVT

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ,
  • Sicco H Popma, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ,
  • Alan W Flake, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • ,
  • Bruce R Rosengard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bruce R. Rosengard, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 6 Silverstein, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Telephone: 215-662-4765. Fax: 215-349-5798
    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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☆ Supported in part by grants from the NIH, the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the Center For Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy.

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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 233-243 , February 2002

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