Sentences with phrase «regenerate cardiac tissues»

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.

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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.

5/15/2008 New Role Found for a Cardiac Progenitor Population In a discovery that could one day lead to an understanding of how to regenerate damaged heart tissue, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that parent cells involved in embryonic development of the epicardium — the cell l...

The zebrafish heart robustly regenerates missing or damaged cardiac tissue following a partial ventricular resection procedure in as little as 30 - 60 days.

In fact, mammals have a limited repertoire of tissues they can regenerate, and some essential ones, such as nerves and cardiac muscle, are not on that list.

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