Source: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Date: May 7, 2010
Summary:
HOUSTON – Human adult stem cells injected around the damage caused by a heart attack survived in the heart and improved its pumping efficiency for a year in a mouse model, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report online ahead of publication in Circulation Research. The study, with researchers at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, used innovative imaging techniques developed by researchers at MD Anderson to track the stem cells’ location and performance over time.
