All Articles Tagged As: blood vessels

A stem cell type supposed to be crucial for angiogenesis and cancer growth does not exist? (4/23/2008)

Researchers have shown that circulating endothelial precursor cells actually do not exist ...> Full Article

In Blood Vessel Stents, Innovative Materials Allow Better Control, Delivery of Gene Therapy (4/20/2008)

Cardiology researchers have advanced delivery techniques by creating a versatile synthetic material that can bind to a variety of gene therapy vectors and can be custom-designed for controlled local release of therapeutic genes at a disease site ...> Full Article

Blood vessels: The pied piper for growing nerve cells (4/13/2008)

Researchers have discovered that blood vessels in the head can guide growing facial nerve cells with blood pressure controlling proteins. The findings, which suggest that blood vessels throughout the body might have the same power of persuasion over many nerves ...> Full Article

Stem Cells From Hair Follicles May Help 'Grow' New Blood Vessels (4/1/2008)

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients' heads ...> Full Article

Stem Cell Trial Offers Hope For Patients With Severe Ischemic Heart Disease (3/9/2008)

Patients with ischemic heart disease, a serious condition that occurs when the heart's arteries become clogged with cholesterol plaque, may have new options if they have exhausted traditional cardiovascular therapies. A clinical trial at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Heart Center is using patients' own stem cells to improve circulation in hearts damaged by inadequate blood flow, by promoting the growth of new, microscopic blood vessels. ...> Full Article

Researchers control growth rate of replacement blood vessels, tissues (3/9/2008)

Researchers have discovered a way to control the growth rate of replacement tissue and the formation of new blood vessels, which solves one of the vexing problems of growing replacement tissue to treat injuries and trauma in humans. ...> Full Article

Hospital first to use utilize novel stem cell therapy (2/24/2008)

University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Heart & Vascular Institute is the first hospital in Northeast Ohio to use the NOGA XP Cardiac Navigation System to inject a patient's own stem cells into his/her heart to treat angina. The innovative cardiac mapping system allows physicians to deliver the stem cell therapy into damaged areas of the heart with pinpoint accuracy. ...> Full Article

How the Heart Takes Form (2/11/2008)

Researchers Describe Early Heart Development in Vertebrates ...> Full Article

Researchers Identify Cell Process That Regulates Wound Healing (2/9/2008)

Researchers have uncovered cell processes that will open new therapeutic approaches to wound healing. ...> Full Article

Stem cell therapy studies for stroke, cerebral palsy prepare for clinical trials (1/31/2008)

Finding answers about optimal dosage and timing for stem cell therapy in adults with strokes and newborns with ischemic injuries is a goal of two new federally funded studies. ...> Full Article

First U.S. Trial Transplants Stem Cells to Investigate Prevention of Leg Amputations (1/23/2008)

A Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researcher has launched the first U.S. trial in which a purified form of subjects' own adult stem cells was transplanted into their leg muscles with severely blocked arteries to try to grow new small blood vessels and restore circulation in their legs. ...> Full Article

Scientists Tap Amniotic Fluid For Stem Cells (1/12/2008)

Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have reported success in using otherwise discarded amniotic fluid as a source of stem cells from which they have created muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells in the laboratory. ...> Full Article

Researcher orks toward engineered blood vessels (12/19/2007)

Vessels could be used in human body ...> Full Article

Engineered Blood Vessels Function like Native Tissue (7/8/2007)

Blood vessels that have been tissue-engineered from bone marrow adult stem cells may in the future serve as a patient's own source of new blood vessels following a coronary bypass or other procedures that require vessel replacement, according to new research from the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. ...> Full Article

Studies To Find Better Ways To Preserve Human Eggs, Ovarian Tissue Under Way (6/8/2007)

The goal is to make human eggs, ovarian tissue, blood vessels, even whole organs available when needed. ...> Full Article