Heart Attack

Studies from University of Louisville update current data on heart attack

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, September 18th, 2008

"a Adult bone marrow (BM) contains Sca-1+/Lin-/CD45- very small embryonic-like stem cells (VSELs) that express markers of several lineages, including cardiac markers, and differentiate into cardiomyocytes in vitro. We examined whether BM-derived VSELs promote myocardial repair after a reperfused myocardial infarction (MI)," researchers in the United States report.

"Mice underwent a 30-minute coronary occlusion followed by reperfusion and received intramyocardial injection of vehicle (n = 11), 1 x 10(5) Sca-1+/Lin-/CD45-enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-labeled hematopoietic stem cells (n = 13 [cell control group]), or 1 x 10(4) Sca-1+/Lin-/CD45- EGFP-labeled...

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Source: Medical Imaging Business Week (2008-09-18)

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