Sentences with phrase «cardiac tissue from»

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes, in collaboration with scientists at UC Berkeley, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and a drug - screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

«Growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells: New model for early heart development.»

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Cardiac or skeletal muscle tissues (they also pass electrical impulses from cell to cell)?

Researchers from the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) of Kyoto University and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of Osaka University have developed effective and convenient Cardiac Tissue - Like Constructs (CTLCs) for repairing myocardial infarctions.

The researchers transplanted the cardiac fibroblasts isolated from the region of calcification under the skin of healthy mice and observed soft - tissue calcification similar to that seen in the donor mice.

A previous study from the MGH team found that injecting B cells into cardiac tissue damaged by a heart attack improved structural and functional recovery in an animal model.

Jana Petzold of the Erlangen team headed by Prof. Engel and Tamara Aigner from Prof. Scheibel's Bayreuth working group collaborated in investigating the suitability of the silk protein eADF4 (κ16) produced in the laboratory for the production of cardiac tissue.

The work conducted by the researchers from Erlangen and Bayreuth and the possibilities of printing artificial silk proteins using 3D printing technology therefore represent the first steps towards future methods for engineering functional cardiac tissue.

«This project utilizes innovative technology and applies it to a critical health issue, minimizing cardiac tissue loss from a heart attack» explains Steven Krosnick, M.D., Director of the NIBIB Program for Image - Guided Interventions.

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

Cardiac repair in guinea pigs with human engineered heart tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells.

In addition to growing new skin for burn victims, cells from hair follicles could potentially be used to engineer vascular grafts and possibly regenerate cardiac tissues for patients with heart problems.

Stem cells from the bone marrow can develop into cardiac muscle, as well as liver, brain, nerve, fat and skin tissue.

The study supports the idea that patients with coronary artery disease may benefit from cardiac rehab programs, which drive the progenitor cells into the ischemic tissue, so they can contribute into vascular repair and regeneration.

At an April conference, Wagner claimed that a patch of this biomaterial infused with smooth muscle cells promotes healing and reduced formation of scar tissue in the hearts of rats recovering from cardiac arrest.

[pagebreak] MRIs help predict sudden cardiac death A research team from Johns Hopkins used MRI scans to determine in 2005 that the thickness of scar tissue resulting from a heart attack was an accurate predictor of the risk of sudden death from arrhythmia and could prove valuable in identifying patients in need of an implantable defibrillator or other aggressive treatment.

A pleural fissure line is present overlying the cardiac silhouette on the lateral view, and the caudal lung lobes are slightly separated from the thoracic wall by soft tissue opacity material on the DV view.

In addition to the three primary cardiomyopathies, Dr. Bonagura cites other acquired feline cardiac disorders regularly encountered by veterinary cardiologists: feline myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle; myocardial infarction, tissue death in an area of the heart muscle resulting from a blood clot; and «unclassified» cardiomyopathies, a category comprising hybrids of the various conditions.