Rebuilding Broken Hearts. Biologists and Engineers Working Together in the Fledgling Field of Tissue Engineering Are Within Reach of One of Their Greatest Goals: Constructing a Living Human Heart Patch.
From: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal.
Scientific American
- Publish Date: Nov 2004
- ISSN: 0036-8733
- Volume: 291
- Issue: 5
- Pages: 44-51
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Cohen Smadar, Leor Jonathan, et al. Rebuilding Broken Hearts. Biologists and Engineers Working Together in the Fledgling Field of Tissue Engineering Are Within Reach of One of Their Greatest Goals: Constructing a Living Human Heart Patch.. Sci. Am. Nov 2004;291:44-51
Abstract
A heart broken by love usually heals with time, but damage to cardiac muscle caused by a heart attack gets progressively worse. Unlike liver or skin, heart tissue cannot regenerate, so the scar left after a heart attack remains a noncontractile dead zone.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Biocompatible Materials, Culture Techniques, Heart, Humans, Myocardial Infarction, Myocardium, Regeneration, Stem Cell Transplantation, Tissue Engineering
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