Adult stem cells taken from bone marrow can improve heart function

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Adult Stem Cells Transfer Improves Heart Function
Thu Jul 8, 2004 07:12 PM ET
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LONDON (Reuters) - Adult stem cells taken from bone marrow can improve heart function in patients who have suffered a heart attack, German researchers said on Friday.
Stem cells are master cells that can develop into specialized cells. They hold the promise of treating a range of illnesses such as Alzheimer's, diabetes and heart disease.

Dr Helmut Drexler, of the Medical University of Hannover in Germany, used adult stem cells from bone marrow of heart-attack patients to see if they could improve heart function.

Drexler and his team randomly selected 60 patients who had had treatment following a heart attack to receive either an injection of the stem cells into the artery supplying the damaged area of the heart or standard therapy.

Six months later, the stem cell transfer patients had about a 7 percent improvement in function of the heart, compared to 0.7 percent in the other group.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BC3MGLCULFCRYCRBAE0CFFA?type=healthNews&storyID=5624575

[Frodo]

1. Amazing what science can do!

[Heddi]

2. Kick!

I love it when science and medince amaze me. This is very great news!

[AussieInCA]

3. no freeper or RW'er will ever use any of this when it is in the market

Now would they...


yeah right.

[Frodo]

4. Why?

They don't have any problem with adult stem cell research.

[ronabop]

5. DU'ers must learn:

Pluripotent is not totipotent.

That's the canard, the red herring, the idiocy.

When someone makes totipotent stem cells from skin, that's news.

-Bop