{"id":33409,"date":"2017-01-12T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/stem-cells-used-to-regenerate-the-external-layer-of-a-human-heart"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:03:54","slug":"stem-cells-used-to-regenerate-the-external-layer-of-a-human-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/stem-cells-used-to-regenerate-the-external-layer-of-a-human-heart","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells used to regenerate the external layer of a human heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cells-used-to-regenerate-the-external-layer-of-a-human-heart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart \u2014 epicardium cells \u2014 according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2012, we discovered that if we treated human stem cells with chemicals that sequentially activate and inhibit Wnt signaling pathway, they become myocardium muscle cells,\u201d said Xiaojun Lance Lian, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and biology, who is leading the study at Penn State. Myocardium, the middle of the heart\u2019s three layers, is the thick, muscular part that contracts to drive blood through the body.<\/p>\n<p>The Wnt signaling pathway is a group of signal transduction pathways made of proteins that pass signals into a cell using cell-surface receptors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/01\/170111151837.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/01\/170111151837.h...m=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart \u2014 epicardium cells \u2014 according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers. \u201cIn 2012, we discovered that if we treated human stem cells with chemicals that sequentially activate and inhibit Wnt signaling pathway, they become myocardium muscle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49344,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions\/49344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}