September 9, 2005
Cardiac Adult Stem Cells May Lead to Treatments
The Associate Press reports that Japanese researchers have discovered stem cells in human heart tissue, a development that could lead to improved treatments for heart disease and reduce the need for transplants, a Japanese newspaper reported Friday.
The researchers gathered heart tissue from 50 patients suffering heart disease and were able to culture stem cells from the samples that developed into different types of cells, including heart muscle cells, blood cells and neurons, the report said. Injections of the cells into a mouse that had suffered an embolism helped the animal regenerate damaged heart muscle and blood vessels.Another positive development for ADULT stem cell based technology, which unlike embryonic stem cell research, does not involve the destruction of a human life.
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Posted September 9, 2005 9:14 AM
