Discovery of Repair Process After Heart Attack Suggests Potential for New Treatment Strategy

In a study that could point the way toward a new strategy for treating patients after a heart attack, UCLA stem cell researchers led by associate professor of medicine and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research member Dr. Arjun Deb have discovered that some scar-forming cells in the heart, known as fibroblasts, have the ability to become endothelial cells . The UCLA team also found that a drug could enhance this phenomenon and improve the repair process after a heart attack.

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