{"id":71895,"date":"2017-08-14T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-rejuvenate-old-hearts"},"modified":"2017-08-14T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:22:38","slug":"scientists-rejuvenate-old-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-rejuvenate-old-hearts","title":{"rendered":"Scientists rejuvenate old hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-rejuvenate-old-hearts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the study, 22-month-old rats \u2014 who were considered old \u2014 received stem cells from four-month-old rats.<\/p>\n<p>Across the board, all of them experienced improved heart function, improved their exercise capacity by an average of 20 percent, and regrew hair faster than rats that didn\u2019t receive the cells.<\/p>\n<p>They also demonstrated longer heart cell telomeres.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Until now, scientists have tested the method to repair damage. But the Cedars-Sinai team in LA \u2014 who did the world\u2019s first cardiac stem cell infusion in 2009 \u2014 have shown it can also reverse aging.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4789300\/Scientists-rejuvenate-old-hearts-injecting-stem-cells.html?ITO=applenews\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-4789300\/Scientists...=applenews<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the study, 22-month-old rats \u2014 who were considered old \u2014 received stem cells from four-month-old rats. Across the board, all of them experienced improved heart function, improved their exercise capacity by an average of 20 percent, and regrew hair faster than rats that didn\u2019t receive the cells. They also demonstrated longer heart cell telomeres. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71895","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}