Source: University of Toronto
Posted: July 4, 2006
Summary:
A study by researchers at the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Toronto General Hospital has revealed the 'SOS' distress signal that mobilizes specific heart repair cells from the bone marrow to the injured heart after a heart attack. The researchers say this study identifies the method the body employs to repair the heart and provides new therapies to stimulate cardiac regeneration and prevent heart failure in patients who have suffered a heart attack.
Commentary: This research seems promising in producing new strategies to use bone marrow stem cells to both prevent and treat heart attacks.
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