Intramuscular injection of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells improves cardiac function in dilated cardiomyopathy rats

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• who: Chenggang Mao from the Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (average body weight , ± , g) purchased from Shandong Lukang Pharmaceutical (Jining, Shandong, China) were caged and maintained in an SPF-grade animal facility at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao UniversityThe rats were randomly divided into two groups: the DCM group (n=140) in which doxorubicin (, mg per kg body weight) was injected intraperitoneally once a week for , consecutive weeks, and the normal control group (n=20) in which saline (, mL) was injected in the same manner. Development of DCM was examined and verified by echocardiography (Additional file, : Figure . . .
  

   

  

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