Study results show promise for cardiac treatment.
BBC News (8/17) reported that "heart attacks and other vascular injuries could eventually be treated using regular injections of magnetised stem cells," according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions.
The UK's Daily Mail (8/18, Derbyshire) reports that, "in the groundbreaking experiment, stem cells were 'tagged' with microscopic magnetic particles and" were "then injected into the bloodstream of rats suffering artery damage." Physicians "used a magnet outside the body to guide the cells into position -- allowing them to repair and restore damaged blood vessels."
The UK's Telegraph (8/18, Smith) quotes senior study author Dr. Mark Lythgoe, of the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, as saying, "Because the material we used in this method is already approved, we could see this technology being applied in human clinical trials within three to five years.'" Dr. Lythgoe added, "It's feasible that heart attacks and other vascular injuries could eventually be treated using regular injections of magnetised stem cells."
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