Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Injectable human recombinant collagen matrices limit adverse remodeling and improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction

  • Sarah McLaughlin,
  • Brian McNeill,
  • James Podrebarac,
  • Katsuhiro Hosoyama,
  • Veronika Sedlakova,
  • Gregory Cron,
  • David Smyth,
  • Richard Seymour,
  • Keshav Goel,
  • Wenbin Liang,
  • Katey J. Rayner,
  • Marc Ruel,
  • Erik J. Suuronen,
  • Emilio I. Alarcon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12748-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Many patients, following therapy for acute myocardial infarction, develop adverse cardiac remodelling. Here the authors present injectable recombinant human collagen 10 of 10 type I and III matrices that are able to limit adverse remodelling and improve function of the myocardium.