More on Stem Cell Heart Research and Angioblasts .. plus a good illustration
Related News: Heart / Cardio NewsSilviu Itescu, MD, Director of Transplantation Immunology for the Departments of Surgery and Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has been showing that if adult blood vessel stem cells, known as angioblasts, are injected into animals with damaged hearts, these cells find their way to the heart and create new blood vessels in the muscle wall to help repair itself....Read It All
More recently, Dr. Itescu has also investigated whether a different type of adult stem cell, called a mesenchymal precursor, can regenerate cardiac muscles and arteries in animals.
Posted on December 15, 2004 12:05 PM