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Challenges for heart disease stem cell therapy

Overview of attention for article published in Vascular Health and Risk Management, February 2012
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Challenges for heart disease stem cell therapy
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Vascular Health and Risk Management, February 2012
DOI 10.2147/vhrm.s25665
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Jane Hoover-Plow, Yanqing Gong

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. The use of stem cells to improve recovery of the injured heart after myocardial infarction (MI) is an important emerging therapeutic strategy. However, recent reviews of clinical trials of stem cell therapy for MI and ischemic heart disease recovery report that less than half of the trials found only small improvements in cardiac function. In clinical trials, bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood cells were used as the source of stem cells delivered by intracoronary infusion. Some trials administered only a stem cell mobilizing agent that recruits endogenous sources of stem cells. Important challenges to improve the effectiveness of stem cell therapy for CVD include: (1) improved identification, recruitment, and expansion of autologous stem cells; (2) identification of mobilizing and homing agents that increase recruitment; and (3) development of strategies to improve stem cell survival and engraftment of both endogenous and exogenous sources of stem cells. This review is an overview of stem cell therapy for CVD and discusses the challenges these three areas present for maximum optimization of the efficacy of stem cell therapy for heart disease, and new strategies in progress.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Peru 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Greece 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 78 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 24%
Student > Bachelor 16 18%
Student > Master 12 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 15 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 38%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 10%
Engineering 5 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 2%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 14 16%
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#20,656,820
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Outputs from Vascular Health and Risk Management
#675
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#205,112
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Outputs of similar age from Vascular Health and Risk Management
#12
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