New Technology Repairs and Regenerates Heart Cells After a Heart Attack

Revolutionary findings by UH researchers have the potential to become a powerful clinical method for treating heart disease.
A “powerful clinical strategy” for treating heart disease may result from the recent discovery.

Robert Schwartz, Hugh and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of biology and biochemistry, led the studies published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Aging. Credit: University of Houston
University of Houston researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique that, in mice, not only restores the heart muscle cells after a myocardial infarction (or heart attack) but also helps the cells regenerate.
According to Robert Schwartz, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of biology and biochemistry at the UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the ground-breaking discovery, which was published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Aginghas the potential to develop into a powerful clinical strategy for treating heart disease in people.
The innovative method used by the