Etiqueta: heart disease
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Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure
Around 6.2 million adults in the United States experience heart failure—a serious chronic condition in which the heart is not able to pump enough blood throughout the body for its normal function. Heart failure can come on unexpectedly, but patients with heart failure have also typically experienced heart disease or another heart condition, such as:…
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Endometrial regenerative cells for treatment of heart failure: a new stem cell enters the clinic
Leo Bockeria, Vladimir Bogin, Olga Bockeria, Tatyana Le, Bagrat Alekyan, Erik J Woods, Amalia A Brown, Thomas E Ichim and Amit N Patel Journal of Translational Medicine 2013, 11:56 doi:10.1186/1479-5876-11-56 Published: 5 March 2013 Heart failure is one of the key causes of morbidity and mortality world-wide. The recent findings that regeneration is possible in…
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Making Blood Cells into Heart Cells
Vojdani et al. Hum Cell. 2011 Mar;24(1):35-42 One of the major debates in the area of stem cell therapy is whether adult stem cells are capable of directly transforming (differentiating) into new tissue, or whether the therapeutic effects of administered stem cells occur because of growth factors produced by the injected stem cells. There are…