Sentences with phrase «healthy cardiac tissue»

Then there are stem cells, which tantalize with their myriad possibilities: allowing diabetics to throw away their insulin, growing healthy cardiac tissue after a heart attack, restoring function to people with spinal cord injury (for which the Food and Drug Administration just approved the first embryonic stem cell trial).

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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.

Investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute — whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans — have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.