by Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD – Drug Discovery News –
Researchers harvest stem cells from patients who have recently had a heart attack and use them to trigger regeneration of their cardiac muscle.
For many people, surviving a heart attack is just the beginning. Within minutes after one or more areas of the heart stop receiving oxygen, cardiac muscle cells begin to die. Given the limited regeneration potential of the heart, its response to this destruction is to replace the lost cells with scar tissue…
