Posted on 07/26/2005 6:25:16 PM PDT by Bostton1
Health Stem Cells Restore Heart Function in Pigs -- Dennis Thompson
TUESDAY, July 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Researchers report the successful use of stem cells to treat heart attack tissue damage in pigs -- a breakthrough that is paving the way for human trials.
"There is reason for optimism about these findings, possibly leading to a first-ever cure for heart attack in humans," senior author Dr. Joshua Hare, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in a prepared statement.
"Ultimately," he said, "the goal is to develop a widely applicable treatment to repair and reverse the damage done to heart muscle that has been infarcted, or destroyed, after losing its blood supply."
In just two months, stem cells harvested from another pig's bone marrow and injected into the animal's damaged heart restored the animal's heart function and repaired damaged heart muscle from 50 percent to 75 percent, according to the study, which was published in this week's onlie issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Two patients already have been enrolled at Johns Hopkins to participate in a Phase I clinical trial of the therapy, which will test the safety of injecting adult stem cells at varying amounts in patients who have recently suffered a heart attack.
A total of 48 patients will participate in the study. Results are not expected until mid-2006, the researchers said.
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"stem cells harvested from another pig's bone marrow"
And they didn't kill a pig embryo to do it.
Kinda sounds like Red Lobster endless shrimp and lobster would be a good project, too.
I just want to know WHICH democrats got the treatment.
Wow, hope the Phase I trial works out. The future's gonna be an amazing place!
Or horrible.. it all depends on how the MSM will portray the success. It hinges on whether the facts get out or their "facts."
Don't get too excited. You will never get there. It will always be the present and the future will always be the future. However, it may be a present with all these wonderful presently future things. :-)
The left is never going to approve of this procedure, even if it were to work 100% of the time. Any stem procedure, as far as they're concerned, has to come as a result of fetal stem-cell research. Nothing else will do.
Track record = thousands of years.
It's pretty cheap too.
And they didn't kill a pig embryo to do it.
But did the other pig sign a consent form, or was this a forced marrow-harvesting???
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