Source: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Date: November 21, 2007
Summary:
Injecting adult stem cells into a heart following a heart attack (infarction) improves the heart function and strengthens the heart wall. A researcher at Leiden University Medical Center used adult human EPDCs that she extracted from the atrium of the heart. She transplanted these cells to a mouse heart that had suffered an infarction. The mice receiving these cells retained a better heart function than mice without these cells, both in the short term and in the longer term of several weeks. The human cells also ensured that less mouse cells died off.
