Research Article - (2014) Volume 5, Issue 1
Cardiomyocyte-specific Estrogen Receptor Alpha Increases Angiogenesis,Lymphangiogenesis and Reduces Fibrosis in the Female Mouse Heart Post-Myocardial Infarction
- Shokoufeh Mahmoodzadeh1*#, Joachim Leber1#, Xiang Zhang1,2, Frédéric Jaisser3, Smail Messaoudi3, Ingo Morano4, Priscilla A Furth5, Elke Dworatzek1 and Vera Regitz- Zagrosek1
- 1Institute of Gender in Medicine and Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charité Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
- 2Department of Cardiology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
- 3Inserm, U872, Paris, China
- 4Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
- 5Departments of Oncology and Medicine and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- #Contributed equally to this work
*Corresponding Author:
Shokoufeh Mahmoodzadeh, Institute of Gender in Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Hessische Str. 3-4, 10115 Berlin, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)30 450 525 287, Fax: +49 (0)30 450 525 943
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