Sentences with phrase «regenerate damaged heart muscle»
About 720,000 people experience a heart attack annually in the United States, which means that hundreds of thousands of people each year could benefit from a therapy to repair and regenerate damaged heart muscle.
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On average the transplanted stem cells regenerated 40 percent of the damaged heart tissue, said Dr. Michael Laflamme, UW assistant professor of pathology, whose team was principally responsible for generating the replacement heart muscle cells.
«Stem cell therapy regenerates heart muscle damaged from heart attacks in primates.»
Together, the teams of Drs. Srivastava and Ding are confident that they will soon find a way to eliminate the need for genes entirely, thus using only a cocktail of small molecules to generate beating heart muscle and regenerating damaged hearts.
Dr. Srivastava's lab has leveraged the body of knowledge from cardiac developmental biology to reprogram non-muscle cells in the mouse heart directly into cells that function like heart muscle cells, effectively regenerating heart muscle after damage.