Science news articles about 'heart injury'

... or rejection by the body. In the pig research model, this approach minimised heart injury after a heart attack, a particularly important consideration since the heart has a limited ability to ...

... a key event in cigarette smoke-induced heart injury, says Mariann Piano, professor of biobehavioral ... protein kinases. She received the American Heart Association's 2008 Katharine A. Lembright Award ...

... ventricle. Current management at major pediatric heart centers has resulted in survival rates of 75 ... mothers whose newborns had left-sided heart injury had a significant history of problems related ...

... is inactivated by CD26/dipeptidylpeptidase IV (DPP-IV), endogenous stem cell localization to the heart is not optimal. The researchers used genetic or pharmacologic inhibitors of CD26/DPP-IV to slow ...

... a dual therapy can lead to generation of new blood vessels and improved cardiac function following a heart attack. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem ...

... to the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The limited recovery in humans after a heart injury, such as a heart attack, demonstrates failing regeneration of heart cells. But the team concluded ...

... well documented, mNPs have sparked interest after being attached to stem cells and used in vivo to remedy heart injury in rats. On humans, in 2007, Berlin's Charité Hospital used a technique which ...