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Article: Stem Cell Therapy for Ailing Hearts: Cord Blood Cells Limit Heart Attack Damage in Animal Study.
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- January 4, 2005
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Byline: University of South Florida Health Sciences
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cells from umbilical cord blood effectively treated heart attacks in an animal study, report cardiologist Robert J. Henning, MD, and colleagues at the University of South Florida and James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital.
When injected into rats' hearts soon after a heart attack, stem cells taken from human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) greatly reduced the size of heart damage and restored pumping function to near normal. This improvement occurred without the need for drugs to prevent the rats' immune system from rejecting the human cells.
The USF study ...