Monia Savi

Stem cell based regenerative therapies in healed myocardial infarction

Cardiac electromechanical performance of the mended heart

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Produktbeschreibung

The electrophysiological effects of stem cell based therapies for heart repair have not been systematically analyzed. To adress this issue, male Wistar rats with one-month old myocardial infarction were treated with intra-myocardial injection of (i) Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) + Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF), (ii) cardiac progenitors cells (CPCs) or (iii) CPCs supplemented with HGF+IGF-1. Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) were recorded prior and two weeks after treatment. Before sacrifice, invasive echocardiographic and/or hemodynamic measurements were perfomed. The heart was then perfusion-fixed for morphometric and immunohistochemical studies. All treatments determined a positive left ventricular remodelling and an amelioration of mechanical function associated with formation of new electro-mechanically competent myocytes and vascular structures. Whereas, VAs were reduced only when growth factors were injected, either alone or added to CPCs. The data are expected to be ofinterest to the broad readership of both basic and clinically oriented cardiovascular research, given the finding that lethal arrhythmias are responisble for up to half the death in heart failure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 131g
• ISBN-13: 9783838385228
• ISBN-10: 3838385225
• Artikelnr.: 31189526

Autorenporträt

Monia Savi, PhD: Studied Biological Sciences (Physio-Pathological academic specialty) at University of Parma. In 2009, PhD in Sistemic Physiopathology. Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology (Physiology Section) of Parma University. Research field in cardiac electrophysiology.