Review Article

Pathological Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Stem Cells: Current Evidence and New Perspectives

Table 1

Classes of cardiac stem/progenitor cells in the adult heart.

Class of cardiac stem/progenitor cellsCharacterization

Cardiac stem cellsc-kit, Sca-1, Abcg-2, Flk-1, and WT1
Side population of cardiac stem cellsBcrp1
Mesenchymal stem cellsCD70+, CD90+, CD105+, and CD34āˆ’
Cardiosphere-derived cellsCellular clusters from cardiac explants