Okayama University research: Cell injections get to the heart of congenital defects

Researchers at Okayama University and Okayama University Hospital show that children suffering from a condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome experienced some improvement in cardiac function in the months following injection of CDCs. Okayama researchers highlight that cardiac progenitor cells in children are "more abundant, self-renewing, and multipotent than those found in adults," Researchers at Okayama University and Okayama University Hospital show that children suffering from a condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome experienced some improvement in cardiac function in the months following injection of CDCs.

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