{"id":4553,"date":"2016-01-19T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:33:00","slug":"preparing-stem-cells-with-electricity-is-good-for-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/preparing-stem-cells-with-electricity-is-good-for-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing stem cells with electricity is good for the heart<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4ZHgriU38o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time researchers have shown that stimulating cardiac muscle cells, derived from stem cells, with electrical impulses improves their development and function. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing these cells with the improved function could potentially help treat cardiovascular disease, one of the world\u2019s major illnesses, as it may provide a way to regenerate heart muscle. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When stimulated ,these heart cells beat at a matching rate. The cells were not only able to maintain the beating rate they also transferred it to surrounding heart cells. The researchers believe if the results are confirmed in animal testing, they may be able to improve current therapies treating heart diseases with stem-cells.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms10312\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 19<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic,\u00a0Department of Biomedical Engineering,\u00a0Columbia University, New York, New York,\u00a0U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Gagliardi,\u00a0McEwen Centre for Regenerative,\u00a0Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time researchers have shown that stimulating cardiac muscle cells, derived from stem cells, with electrical impulses improves their development and function. Providing these cells with the improved function could potentially help treat cardiovascular disease, one of the world\u2019s major illnesses, as it may provide a way to regenerate heart muscle. When stimulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2487,51,1990,53,50,1288],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cardiac","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-stem-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1br","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}