fwiw...Since it is in the portfolio.
Best of Luck,
SS
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"Meanwhile, other groups believe that stem cells derived from adipose tissue, or body fat, might help the heart.
"The irony of it – adipose cells being used for heart disease!" exclaimed John Fraser, a stem cell biologist at the La Jolla biotechnology firm MacroPore Biosurgery. Its president, Marc Hedrick, was the first to identify fat-residing stem cells when he was working in UCLA's Department of Surgery.
This very same type of adult stem cell made headlines last December when surgeons in Germany used it to fill in a hole in a 7-year-old girl's skull. Fraser and Hedrick were authors on the published paper.
MacroPore and UCLA scientists recently studied heart function in pigs who were injected with adipose stem cells. Six months after induced heart attacks, the pigs had significantly better heart function than animals given a placebo. While stem cells in bone marrow are quite rare, those in fat cells occur with greater frequency, said Fraser. "You could take a liter of fat from a patient" – perhaps from waist or thigh, doing the patient a service – "and get an awfully lot of stem cells out of it," he said.
"What people forget about, and it's really important," he added, "is that adipose-derived stem cells don't necessarily have to be differentiating into cardiac muscle cells to help. They also could be making growth factors that can stop myocytes from dying," after a heart attack."
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