Heart repair may soon be within reach

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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Behfar et al., J Exp Med. 2007 Feb 19) found a simple way to isolate a large quantity of cardiac progenitors or cardiopoietic cells, to prevent tumor growth when stem cells are delivered in vivo, to escape from host immunity and ,finally, to repair injured heart. “Recruited cardiopoietic cells delivered in infarcted hearts generated cardiomyocytes that proliferated into scar tissue, integrating with host myocardium for tumor-free repair

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