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The REPAIR-AMI and ASTAMI trials: cell isolation procedures

2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/eurheartj/ehm240

1522-9645

T Egeland, Jan E. Brinchmann,

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

In a recent article, Seeger et al. 1 compare the methods for the preparation of the bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM-MNC) in the REPAIR-AMI2 and ASTAMI3 trials. In their paper, Seeger et al. 1 claim to use Ficoll (Cambrex) for gradient centrifugation. Ficoll is a high-molecular-weight sucrose polymer, now rarely used on its own for cell …