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Nanofibers Heal the Heart

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Nanofibers Heal the Heart

image: There are more renewed arterioles and arteries (green) at the peri-infarct myocardium at 28 days after NF/VEGF treatment in pigs. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 8, 2012, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. Y.-D. Lin at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues, was titled, "Instructive Nanofiber Scaffolds with VEGF Create a Microenvironment for Arteriogenesis and Cardiac Repair." view more 

Credit: Image courtesy of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>/AAAS


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