Sentences with phrase «repair damage to the heart»

Not exact matches

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One research group investigating this possibility followed the activity of fetal microchimeric cells in a mother rat after the maternal heart was injured: they discovered that the fetal cells migrated to the maternal heart and differentiated into heart cells helping to repair the damage.

Once inside, they could begin to repair the damage caused by a heart attack.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

«It is our hope that Dr. Yin's research will lead to additional potential therapeutic agents like ZF143 to reactivate mechanisms for the repair and regeneration of damaged heart muscle tissue in humans.»

In the United States, about 720,000 residents experience a heart attack annually, which means that hundreds of thousands of heart patients are living with the disabling complications of heart disease who could benefit from therapies to repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue.

In a study published online in Circulation Research late last year, Chaudhry and colleagues found that fetal cells in mice migrated to the mother's heart, differentiated into functioning cardiac cells, and accelerated repair to damaged heart tissue.

• Piero Anversa at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, and Donald Orlic at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, used mouse bone marrow to repair damaged mouse hearts.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

For instance, researchers at other institutions have done animal studies in which they injected cells into the damaged section of the heart to try to repair damage.

«Tiny heart, big promise: Understanding how cells become coronary vessels may lead to advances in repairing heart damage.»

Whether caused by an undetected birth defect or by a heart attack (myocardial infarction), when a heart sustains damage, it can be difficult to repair.

According to cardiologist Stefanie Dimmler at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, degraded telomeres might cause heart disease by impeding the ability of cells from the bone marrow to repair damaged parts of the arterial walls.

They found that while both types of ECM were effective in repairing damage to the mice hearts, the ECM obtained from the zebrafish hearts that were healing were even more potent in restoring heart function in the mice.

The ability to make pure populations of these cells within days rather than the weeks or months previously required is a key step toward clinically useful regenerative medicine — potentially allowing researchers to generate new beating heart cells to repair damage after a heart attack or to create cartilage or bone to reinvigorate creaky joints or heal from trauma.

We are working to transform this game - changing research into therapies that help doctors repair hearts damaged by heart attacks and disease.

To date, researchers have used human iPS cells to make cardiac cells that repaired heart damage in a pig and insulin - producing pancreas cells that reversed high blood sugar in micTo date, researchers have used human iPS cells to make cardiac cells that repaired heart damage in a pig and insulin - producing pancreas cells that reversed high blood sugar in micto make cardiac cells that repaired heart damage in a pig and insulin - producing pancreas cells that reversed high blood sugar in mice.

Muscle damaged by heart attacks can be repaired by an injectable gel that forms scaffolding, attracting stem cells and blood vessels in a study that may lead to a new method for reducing heart failure.

Nanoparticle «bombs» to kill cancer, molecular - sized bridges to repair damaged hearts, and scarless surgery techniques are now on the frontier of medical innovations, with the new institute leading the way.

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.

Yin noted that with a better understanding of the genetic underpinnings that lead to tissue regeneration, he and his team may be able to develop new drug candidates that control the activity of the genetic circuits and repair damaged hearts.

In animals, these cells quickly repaired vascular damage, cutting the death rate after a heart attack in half and restoring the blood flow to ischemic limbs that might otherwise have to be amputated.

Okyanos cardiac cell therapy targets the restoration of blood flow to the heart and repairs damaged heart tissue caused by heart attack or ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.

«When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells,» explained Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a co-founder of the new company.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will grant a patent to MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Voot P. Yin, Ph.D., and Kevin Strange, Ph.D., and their collaborator Michael Zasloff, M.D., Ph.D., for use of the small molecule MSI - 1436 to stimulate the repair and regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries such as a heart attack.

The application of these therapies could range from the repair of heart muscle damaged by heart attack to the repair of sports - related bone, cartilage and muscle injuries.

Deepak Srivastava writes about how by helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells.

This ground - breaking research could lead to a novel way to repair heart damage after a heart attack using a patient's own cells by converting them within the organ into new muscle.

To repair heart muscle in a mouse, researchers inject adult stem cells into the muscle of the damaged wall of a mouse heart.

Dorr had no idea the laboratory he envisioned would one day bring science to the brink of the conquest of aging - related diseases, lead to the development of drugs with the potential to repair damaged hearts or grow to become an international center for training in the biomedical sciences.

In short, he explains that regenerative medical techniques can be used as preventative maintenance to repair damage that accumulates during the course of life and leads to such aging - related diseases as heart disease and cancer.

By helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

By studying them, we are beginning to gain insight into human disease — to understand why organs such as the heart can not repair themselves or why, as we age, the incidence of debilitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's increases so rapidly, and we are developing new therapies that will enhance our abilities to regenerate damaged tissues and prolong healthy lifespan.

The increased blood flow in the heart leads to micro-tears which are tiny tears in the muscle fibers, which the body then repairs and adapts the muscles to better handle the stimulus that caused damage.

If the hormone levels are already low, the body is unable to properly repair the damage and weakening of the system caused by the strain of excess weight, or the added burden on the heart, and the damage to the body - system increases.

Philip Day, in his book health wars, describes heart disease as a «slow motion scurvy» caused by nutritional deficiencies of the 2 amino acids above + vitamin C — which cause damage to the arteries, which is then repaired by cholesterol (which then builds up eventually blocking arteries)(I'm pretty sure it was lysine and proline — you'd have to check).

It is widely recommended to repair heart damage, boost the function of the heart and acts as a protectant against heart attacks and valve damage.

The extract from this amazing fruit is said to be helpful to heart health, organ health, help to reduce high cholesterol levels, improve blood pressure readings, and help repair damaged cells.

Although heartworm treatment eliminates all or most of the worms, it will not repair the damage already done to your pet's heart.

«Statins make regular users become older faster, leaving them open to long - term mental and physical decline, according to disturbing new research... Scientists have found the heart disease drug badly affects our stem cells, the internal medical system which repairs damage to our bodies and protects us from muscle and joint pain as well as memory loss.»

A fully committed «citizen of the internet» suffers a fatal heart attack at his keyboard: the match, with which he was about to light a cigarette, drops into the waste bin, and his computer was damaged beyond repair in the ensuing blaze.

Whether you are grieving the death of someone dear or mourning damage within your relationship, repair to your heart and your bond is possible.»

Just as a skilled surgeon can now repair a damaged heart, our skilled divorce attorney - mediators can now bring calm to the divorce storm and guide both parties to a brighter future.

I am thankful that He knows how much my heart is hurting because I haven't seen my oldest son 7 years, and have never met his children, my grandchildren, my middle son recently told us that he is gay, my daughter is running after everything but God and is constantly lieing to us, my husband lost his job 3 months ago and is very discouraged, the bills keep coming even though the income doesn't, our home is in need if major repairs from hurricane damage years ago, and I want to give up.