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Stem cells shown to repair damaged heart cells.
01 year ago
by Dr. Aldo
in Heart Disease
Stem Cells in Medicine Today.
Scottsdale – Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN along with Belgian collaborators, have demonstrated that “guided” human adult stem cells can effectively heal, repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue. The findings — called “landmark work” in an accompanying editorial — appear in today’s Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
According to the summary on Bio-Medicine.org, stem cells isolated from patients have normally a limited capacity to repair the heart. This innovative technology boosts the regenerative benefit by programming adult stem cells to acquire a cardiac-like profile. Primed by a cocktail of recombinant cardiogenic growth factors, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) harvested from the bone marrow of a cohort of patients with coronary artery disease showed “superior functional and structural benefit without adverse side effects” over a 1-year follow-up in a model of heart failure according to the study.
“These findings provide proof-of-principle that “smart” adult stem cells have added benefit in repairing the heart, providing the foundation for further clinical evaluation,” says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic researcher and senior investigator of the study. “The successful use of guided “lineage specified” human stem cells is based on natural cardiogenic cues” adds Atta Behfar, M.D., Ph.D. first author of the study. The pre-clinical data reported in this seminal paper have cleared the way for safety and feasibility trials in humans, which were recently conducted in Europe.
In their editorial, Eduardo Marban, M.D., Ph.D., and Konstantinos Malliaras, M.D., of Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, in Los Angeles describe the Mayo approach as a “boot camp” for stem cells and also write that the study ” provides the first convincing evidence that MSCs, at least in vitro, can in fact become functional cardiomyocytes (heart cells) ”
I feel this study is really ground-breaking. Previously, regeneration of human heart cells was thought to be quite limited or impossible. In the future, perhaps stem cells for heart regeneration could help those with heart disease.
Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks
01 year ago
by Dr. Aldo
in Heart Disease
Smoking Bans Saves Hearts
Scottsdale – A recent review of the medical news reveals an interesting number: 18 K. According to new research, Americans would suffer 18,000 fewer heart attacks per year and save millions in health costs if all states banned smoking in restaurants, offices and other public spaces nationwide. Currently, only 39 states have some type of public smoking bans, with 26 banning smoking in any enclosed public space, while 11 states have no bans at all.
“Comprehensive smoking bans have been implemented in some states, but not in every state,” noted researcher Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah, co-director of Cardiac Imaging Research at Henry Ford Hospital.
The results of the study are scheduled to be presented the at the American Heart Association’s annual Quality of Care and Outcomes Research conference in Washington, D.C.
Based on the study calculations, 11 percent drop in heart attacks would occur if bans were instituted nationwide, and there would be 18,596 fewer hospitalizations for heart attacks in the first year of the ban. In addition, there would be a savings of $92 million in costs of caring for these patients.
