Posted on 07/12/2014 8:51:48 PM PDT by Innovative
An hour's drive to the southeast, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Dr. Eduardo Marban has recently launched an experiment to help patients like Karpman.
Marban led one of the earlier stem cell trials, using cells taken by biopsy from the patient's own heart. The cells were multiplied in a laboratory for two to three weeks and then reinfused through a catheter. At the time, says Marban, it was thought that the stem cells themselves turned into new heart muscle and blood vessels.
"In fact, the more we learned, the more we realized that that's not what these cells do," he says. "They can make heart muscles and blood vessels in a dish very nicely. But in the living organism what they seem to do is secrete factors that wake up the surrounding heart muscle."
Like re-charging a battery, the infusion of new cells seems to trigger the body to produce new tissue: new muscle and blood cells.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
With heart muscle always considered unable to re-grow or rejuvenate itself, if this is true, it is a big, big deal.
Read the article, it gives more details and looks solid.
>> Marban led one of the earlier stem cell trials,
Thankfully Obama reversed Bush’s order restricting vital embryonic stem cell research...
Political sarcasm aside, good news.
A renewal of heart.
Good news, especially now that I’m hearing for the first time today that after years of being told that a glass or two of red wine each day is good for the blood pressure and heart, such is not the case and in fact can be damaging if used even in moderation......
I hope it works for brain tissue! I had my son’s chord blood saved 13 years ago - it should be a match.
Major breakthrough, indeed.
I cry BS on that. Throw a bottle of Blackberry wine or cold bear in a snow bank. See if that doesn’t help your disposition.
I remember watching a TV shoe called “The Bold Ones” (1969 - 1973) where they had the episode of the “New Doctors” (it was a show that rotated between doctors, policeman, lawyers and a senator) from 1969 where part of the plot was using a patient’s own stem cells to regrow and repair damaged hear muscle what was very experimental then and maybe now. It starred E.G. Marshall as head of the research hospital and John Saxon and David Hartman played the doctors helping him.
shoe = show
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The next frontier in 3-D printing: Human organs
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These are not embryonic stem cells — he initially used stem cells from the patients’ own hearts, now stem cells from the hearts of organ donors.
” a glass or two of red wine each day is good for the blood pressure and heart, such is not the case and in fact can be damaging if used even in moderation......”
I haven’t heard that red wine is damaging, quite the opposite — most research shows it’s healthy. I would be cautious if one study shows it’s not.
If you have a reference and wouldn’t mind posting it, I’d appreciate it.
“after years of being told that a glass or two of red wine each day is good for the blood pressure and heart, such is not the case and in fact can be damaging if used even in moderation......”
Since you mentioned you read it today, I googled it and found it:
Study: Light Drinking Of Alcohol Not Good For Heart
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/07/12/study-light-drinking-of-alcohol-not-good-for-heart/
It is highly misleading — they didn’t do their own study, but reviewed several others and even the article mentions:
“What they found was that those who possessed a gene tied to lower alcohol consumption generally had healthier hearts.”
So there is a genetic component to it — some have “better” genes.
And in the article I posted to start this thread, the patient whose experience they were describing was a man who ran regularly, ate no meat and still had a heart attack.
I think there is still a great deal more evidence that a glass of wine and some dark chocolate are good for you.
But, But, George Bush stopped stem cell research because he wanted people to die of curable illnesses. Christopher Reeves would be walking today except for George Bush!
Oldplayer
Yes indeedy! Let's move on to brain tissue!
This has been going on for a while now ...right through the Bush years when he “outlawed progress”
Ive been watching it for a while as I would like to get it
Amazing
I hope, though it’s probably in vain, that Obamacare doesn’t destroy American medical innovation.
And it said that this patient is back to walking 4 miles a day. Like he was thin and walking 4 miles a day before his heart attack. Whew! I thought that being thin and exercising would pretty much preclude having heart problems but I guess not.
Anyway, how cool that this procedure is being tried and I sure hope that it’s successful.
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