{"id":139972,"date":"2022-05-30T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-human-heart-can-repair-itself-and-we-now-know-which-cells-are-crucial-for-it"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:23:13","slug":"the-human-heart-can-repair-itself-and-we-now-know-which-cells-are-crucial-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-human-heart-can-repair-itself-and-we-now-know-which-cells-are-crucial-for-it","title":{"rendered":"The Human Heart Can Repair Itself, And We Now Know Which Cells Are Crucial For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sbWu9Ry5vGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our bodies are pretty ingenious when it comes to self-repair, and scientists have been studying in detail the ways in which the heart patches itself up after a heart attack (myocardial infarction). They hope to find clues that could lead to better treatments for cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n<p>New research has revealed that the immune response of the body and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lymphatic_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lymphatic system<\/a> (part of the immune system) are crucial in the way that the heart repairs itself after a heart attack has caused damage to the heart muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the study was the discovery of the role played by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macrophage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">macrophages<\/a>, specialist cells that can destroy bacteria or initiate helpful inflammation responses. As the first responders on a scene after a heart attack, these macrophages produce a particular type of protein called VEGFC, the researchers report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our bodies are pretty ingenious when it comes to self-repair, and scientists have been studying in detail the ways in which the heart patches itself up after a heart attack (myocardial infarction). They hope to find clues that could lead to better treatments for cardiovascular problems. New research has revealed that the immune response of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}