TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in Molecular Imaging
T2 - Cardiac Regeneration
AU - Gargiulo, Paola
AU - Dellegrottaglie, Santo
AU - Cirillo, Annapaola
AU - Fabiani, Irma
AU - Riello, Pietro
AU - La Mura, Lucia
AU - Amato, Marianna
AU - Formisano, Tiziana
AU - Iardino, Elisabetta
AU - Soricelli, Andrea
AU - Cuocolo, Alberto
AU - Perrone Filardi, Pasquale
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - In addition to the standard cardiovascular pharmacological treatment and catheter-based and surgical procedures, cardiac restorative therapy was recently introduced. Despite the encouraging results obtained in pre-clinical research, cardiac regenerative therapy is still not used in clinical practice, because of the modest effect on cardiac function. To improve cardiac regenerative strategies, the identification of non-invasive powerful tools is required. Due to availability of various radiotracers and acquisition protocols nuclear imaging is the most promising and can be used both in gene and in cell therapy. This review summarizes current status and future role of nuclear imaging in the area of myocardial regeneration.
AB - In addition to the standard cardiovascular pharmacological treatment and catheter-based and surgical procedures, cardiac restorative therapy was recently introduced. Despite the encouraging results obtained in pre-clinical research, cardiac regenerative therapy is still not used in clinical practice, because of the modest effect on cardiac function. To improve cardiac regenerative strategies, the identification of non-invasive powerful tools is required. Due to availability of various radiotracers and acquisition protocols nuclear imaging is the most promising and can be used both in gene and in cell therapy. This review summarizes current status and future role of nuclear imaging in the area of myocardial regeneration.
KW - Cardiac regeneration
KW - Cardiac stem cell
KW - Gene therapy
KW - Nuclear imaging
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U2 - 10.1007/s12410-013-9215-3
DO - 10.1007/s12410-013-9215-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879936911
VL - 6
SP - 354
EP - 357
JO - Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports
JF - Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports
SN - 1941-9066
IS - 4
ER -