Los Angeles, CA - Doctors in the US have injected autologous cardiac stem cells into patients for the first time, with two people out of a planned 24 having received the treatment following an MI [1].
"This is the first time we have injected cardiac-specific cells into a human," investigator Dr Raj R Makkar (Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA) told heartwire. "These cells are destined to be heart-muscle cells, so this is attractive in that sense—we are trying to obtain cardiogenesis." Preclinical experiments suggest that the cells, known as cardiosphere-derived cells, do develop into cardiac myocytes, he noted./.../
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