Turn skin cells into heart muscle cells

Israeli scientists claim to transform the patient's skin cells into healthy heart muscle cells in the laboratory.

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New therapies that allow heart muscle repair to be damaged in heart failure - (Photo: SPL)

This is a work that can save countless patients with heart failure, because the main use of the patient's cells can avoid rejection in case of transplant from others.

The report on the European Heart Journal showed that the initial test results in mice were very promising, although the actual application may need more time.

Heart failure means that the heart does not pump enough blood to the body like a healthy heart, because the heart muscle cells are destroyed.

In the latest study, the Israeli team took skin cells from two male patients with heart failure, then mixed these cells with a mixture of chemicals and genes in the lab to create cells. origin.

The product of the process is turned into homologous cells like cardiac muscle cells. When inoculated into experimental mice, they began to connect to the surrounding cardiac muscle cells.

The BBC quoted Lior Gepstein, the team leader, as saying that his work and colleagues have shown that it is possible to use skin cells from an elderly and weak patient to turn into "young and healthy" heart muscle cells. like when this person was born.