Damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack have long been regarded as something that will happen permanently. However, the scientists managed to create a drug that can make your own repair heart damage.
Drugs that awaited the newly tested on mice in the laboratory and successfully. Drugs called thymosin beta 4
by the British Heart Foundation is considered a miracle in heart disease research. Nevertheless, it still needed a few more years before the drug can be used humans.
The team of scientists from University College London, England, doing research on groups of cells capable of transforming themselves into the type of cardiac tissue in the embryo. However, in adults, epicardium-derived progenitor cells become inactive or asleep. Scientists then use chemicals thymosin beta 4 for the wake of these cells.