{"id":175250,"date":"2023-11-01T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/combining-cell-types-may-lead-to-improved-cardiac-cell-therapy-following-heart-attack"},"modified":"2023-11-01T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T06:24:35","slug":"combining-cell-types-may-lead-to-improved-cardiac-cell-therapy-following-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/combining-cell-types-may-lead-to-improved-cardiac-cell-therapy-following-heart-attack","title":{"rendered":"Combining cell types may lead to improved cardiac cell therapy following heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combining-cell-types-may-lead-to-improved-cardiac-cell-therapy-following-heart-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and Academia Sinica of Taiwan have harnessed a combination of lab-grown cells to regenerate damaged heart muscle.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061736\">published in <i>Circulation<\/i><\/a>. It addresses major challenges of using <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+muscle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart muscle<\/a> cells, called cardiomyocytes, grown from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stem cells<\/a>, and takes a crucial step toward future clinical applications.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown that transplanting cardiomyocytes made from induced <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pluripotent+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pluripotent stem cells<\/a> (iPSC) can replace muscle in the hearts of mammals. Researchers have struggled to bring the treatment to the clinic, in part because the implanted cells haven\u2019t developed enough life-sustaining blood vessels to survive very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and Academia Sinica of Taiwan have harnessed a combination of lab-grown cells to regenerate damaged heart muscle. The study is published in Circulation. It addresses major challenges of using heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, grown from stem cells, and takes a crucial step toward future clinical applications. Previous research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175250","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}