Cardiac muscle cells as good as progenitors for heart repair
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Stem cell therapies for post-heart attack tissue repair have had modest success at best. Clinical trials have primarily used bone marrow cells, which can promote the growth of new blood vessels, but many studies have shown no benefit. A better alternative may be to use human heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes), suggests a new study.