{"id":993,"date":"2013-03-11T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:59:43","slug":"umbilical-cord-stem-cells-could-repair-damaged-heart-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2013\/03\/umbilical-cord-stem-cells-could-repair-damaged-heart-muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbilical cord stem cells could repair damaged heart muscle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<div>\n<p>StemCellResearchNews.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Researchers have used rare stem cells derived from human <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/cord-blood-banking-overview\/\">cord blood<\/a> to generate heart muscle-like cells, a technique that could provide an effective way to repair damage from <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/heart-attack-and-stem-cells\/\">heart attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study&#8230; found that it is possible to expand up to seven-fold&#8230; rare CD133+ stem cells from human cord blood and then grow them into cardiac muscle cells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The findings of this study could have major implications for treatments following heart attacks. \u00a0Whilst at least 20 million people survive heart attacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/stroke-and-stem-cells\/\">strokes<\/a> every year, many have poor life expectancy and require continual costly clinical care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_news_link\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/10\/111013103647.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/10\/111013103647.htm<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_news_image\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StemCellResearchNews.com &#8220;Researchers have used rare stem cells derived from human cord blood to generate heart muscle-like cells, a technique that could provide an effective way to repair damage from heart attacks. The study&#8230; found that it is possible to expand up to seven-fold&#8230; rare CD133+ stem cells from human cord blood and then grow them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}