{"id":90447,"date":"2019-05-08T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/genetic-therapy-heals-damage-caused-by-heart-attack"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:24:02","slug":"genetic-therapy-heals-damage-caused-by-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/genetic-therapy-heals-damage-caused-by-heart-attack","title":{"rendered":"Genetic therapy heals damage caused by heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-therapy-heals-damage-caused-by-heart-attack2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from King\u2019s College London have found that therapy that can induce heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack, caused by the sudden blocking of one of the cardiac coronary arteries, is the main cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+failure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart failure<\/a>, a condition that now affects over 23 million population in the world, according to the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>At present, when a patient survives a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+attack\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart attack<\/a>, they are left with permanent structural damage to their heart through the formation of a scar, which can lead to heart failure in the future. In contrast to fish and salamander, which can regenerate the heart throughout life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-genetic-therapy-heart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from King\u2019s College London have found that therapy that can induce heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack. Myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack, caused by the sudden blocking of one of the cardiac coronary arteries, is the main cause of heart failure, a condition that now affects over 23 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}