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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:122-123
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Cardiopulmonary support and physiology

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Dr T. Rosengart (Evanston, Ill). I congratulate the authors on a beautiful presentation. They certainly are pioneers in the field, together with Dick Weisel and Philippe Menasche, and really have led a growing body of evidence suggesting some very exciting work in the possibility of cell transplant.

I have four questions for Dr. Saito. The first question involves the use of 5-azacytidine to drive differentiation. Your histology very elegantly shows apparent differentiation of cell lines based upon the localization either to scar or periscar, appearing to go to a myocyte differentiation or a fibroblast differentiation. Based upon these findings, do you think that additional 5-azacytidine would be efficacious or a more prolonged predifferentiation prior to transplant?

In contrast, there certainly are a number of studies now suggesting that undifferentiated cells, bone marrow or otherwise, may equally be efficacious in driving myocardial remodeling. Given concerns potentially by the US Food and Drug Administration or other regulatory agencies in going to clinical trials in terms of mutations, potential mutations, and complications using 5-azacytidine, how do you see the role of using this or other differentiating factors?

Dr Saito. We have not seen it.

Dr Rosengart. Do you think that the azacytidine plays an important role, or do you think . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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