Sentences with phrase «muscle cells from patients»

The method, successfully tested in heart muscle cells from patients, offers an efficient alternative to the daunting task of developing an individualized molecular treatment for each gene mutation that causes DMD.

Not exact matches

The new technique can also be used to grow muscle cells from iPS cells from patients with neuromuscular diseases like ALS, spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy.

Researchers could, in theory, fix genetic malfunctions in the induced pluripotent stem cells derived from a patient and then grow small patches of completely healthy muscle.

The day after his disciplinary dismissal from University of Tokyo for «damaging the university's honor or credibility,» Hisashi Moriguchi maintained in an interview with ScienceInsider that he really did participate in a groundbreaking experiment to treat a heart disease patient with cardiac muscle cells derived from the patient's own induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

If heart muscle cells — cardiomyocytes — could be repaired by cells taken from one's own body, the patient's recovery improves.

Dr. Eric Olson (right) shows the dystrophin protein (red) produced in gene - edited heart muscle cells taken from a DMD patient's blood.

To uncover the identities and roles of these channels in humans, Donald Welsh and colleagues from the University of Calgary investigated smooth muscle cells from cerebral arteries harvested from patients undergoing brain surgery.

The researchers first obtained the stem cells from patients via a muscle biopsy.

For these purposes, we are establishing a partnership with Jamel Chelly (Cochin, Paris, France) to produce iPS cells from muscle progenitor cells of healthy subjects and patients affected by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Celltex charges $ 6,500 to remove mesenchymal stem cells — adult cells that can morph into muscle, bone, cartilage and fat cells — from a small piece of fat it removes from patients» stomachs.

Human satellite cell cultures display numerous features of mature skeletal muscles (1) and have been used for studies of muscle metabolism in cultures established from patients with type 2 diabetes and healthy control subjects (1 — 5,8,9,21,22).

«To make this available as a therapy, we would take a muscle biopsy from a patient with a muscle injury or disease, remove the myoendothelial cells and treat the cells in the lab.

He presented results from both SMA mouse models and patients that demonstrated SMN depletion results in muscle - intrinsic defects such as reduced satellite cell number, a delay in the myogenic program, reduced myoblast fusion, and molecular homeostasis disruption.

Another consequence of low aldosterone is electrolyte imbalance and cell dehydration, which both have negative effects on almost all physiological reactions in the body: aside from salt cravings, low blood pressure and light - headedness, patients with adrenal fatigue often experience an irregular heart beat, lethargy, muscle weakness, and increased thirst.