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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: walkstall on November 05, 2012, 07:50:36 PM

Title: Study: Stem cells from strangers can repair hearts
Post by: walkstall on November 05, 2012, 07:50:36 PM



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LOS ANGELES — Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients' own cells for helping restore heart tissue.

The work involved just 30 patients in Miami and Baltimore, but it proves the concept that anyone's cells can be used to treat such cases. Doctors are excited because this suggests that stem cells could be banked for off-the-shelf use after heart attacks, just as blood is kept on hand now.

Results were discussed Monday at an American Heart Association conference in California and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study used a specific type of stem cells from bone marrow that researchers believed would not be rejected by recipients. Unlike other cells, these lack a key feature on their surface that makes the immune system see them as foreign tissue and attack them, explained the study's leader, Dr. Joshua Hare of the University of Miami.



By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP



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http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20121105/US.MED.Heart.Stem.Cells/ (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20121105/US.MED.Heart.Stem.Cells/)
Title: Re: Study: Stem cells from strangers can repair hearts
Post by: Solar on November 06, 2012, 06:05:48 AM
Excellent!