Sentences with phrase «damaged heart tissue after»
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After a week of growth, they transplanted the patches of heart tissue into the damaged hearts of another set of rats.
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In the days after a heart attack, surviving patients and their loved ones can breathe a sigh of relief that the immediate danger is over — but the scar tissue that forms during the long healing process can inflict lasting damage.
It detects scar tissue formed after the heart muscle is damaged by a heart attack.
Normally, the inflammatory response to tissue damage after infarction — death of muscle tissue in a heart attack — has two stages.
Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.
Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that cells called fibroblasts, which normally give rise to scar tissue after a heart attack, can be turned into endothelial cells, which generate blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients to the injured regions of the heart, thus greatly reducing the damage done following heart attack.
«After two months, the damaged heart tissue looked normal and functioned well.»
The spleen, which is 4 inches long and sits in the upper abdomen, acts as a reservoir of immune cells that speed to the site of heart injury after a heart attack to begin clearance of damaged tissue.
After a heart attack has occurred, inflammatory cells known as monocytes rush to the damaged tissue.