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Heart regenerates after infarction -- first trials with mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Up until today scientists assumed that the adult heart is unable to regenerate. Now, researchers and cardiologists from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin ...





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Researchers isolate and purify mouse heart stem cells

Researchers isolate and purify mouse heart stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering Cornell and University of Bonn study has isolated and purified mouse heart stem cells, settling a debate over whether such cells exist.


Fruit fly research may lead to better understanding of human heart disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown in both fruit flies and humans that genes involved in embryonic heart development are also integral to adult heart function. The study, led by ...


Process for expansion and division of heart cells identified

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created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco have unraveled a complex signaling process that reveals how different types of cells interact to create ...


Study suggests adult stem cells may help repair hearts damaged by heart attack

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Results from t ...


Study Results Suggest Adult Stem Cells May Help Repair Muscle Cells Damaged by Heart Attack

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Resul ...


From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

From fruit fly wings to heart failure -- why Not(ch)?

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost a century after it was discovered in fruit flies with notches in their wings, the Notch signalling pathway may come to play an important role in the recovery from heart attacks. In a study published ...


Bone marrow cells may significantly reduce risk of second heart attack

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells from heart attack survivors' own bone marrow reduced the risk of death or another heart attack when they were infused into the affected artery after successful stent placement, according to research reported in the ...


Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack

Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack

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created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, ...


Researchers examine developing hearts in chickens to find solutions for human heart abnormalities (Video)

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created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When it is head versus heart, the heart comes first. The heart is the first organ to develop and is critical in supplying blood to the rest of the body. Yet, little is known about the complex processes that regulate the heartbeat. ...


Evidence That Patient's Own Stem Cells Could Treat Their Heart Disease

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created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preliminary data presented on March 28 as a late-breaking abstract at the American College of Cardiology's 58th annual scientific session from the largest CD34+ adult stem cell study for heart disease has shown the first ...



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