Sunday 2 November 2014

Heart's Own Immune Cells Can Help Healing After Injury

Healing after injury is possible with the heart's own pool of immune cells, revealed a recent study. The research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that most of the time when the heart is injured, these beneficial immune cells are supplanted by immune cells from the bone marrow, which are spurred to converge in the heart and cause inflammation that leads to further damage. In both cases, these immune cells are called macrophages, ...

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