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When heart-attack victims require a balloon angioplasty, a procedure that opens blocked blood vessels, hospital staff often rush to get this done within 90 minutes, the time required to avoid heart-muscle damage.

The Ultimate Lifesaver Laura Landro 2012

That will be followed by hESCs that have been transformed into heart-muscle cells to repair the damage of heart attack.

Paul Abrams: Bigger than Anything Else in 2010: The Age of Regenerative Medicine Begins 2010

The cells from menstrual blood eventually formed sheet-like heart-muscle tissue.

8-Year-Old Seeks Divorce fantasyecho 2008

Heart Cardiomyocytes, or heart-muscle cells, could one day replace scar tissue that forms after a heart attack.

From Human Embryos, Hope For 'Spare Parts' 2008

First, they are "pluripotent," with the capacity to become any type of specialized cell in the body — a heart-muscle cell that pumps blood, an acid-producing cell in the stomach, a cell in the retina of your eye that sees light, or a brain cell that stores memories.

Will Stem Cells Finally Deliver? 2008

Suppose, after a heart attack that killed millions of heart-muscle cells, that millions of new "personalized" replacement heart-muscle cells created from your iPS cells were infused into your bloodstream.

Will Stem Cells Finally Deliver? 2008

While doctors gave him the go-ahead to play this year, Chicago management balked at signing him to a contract extension until he took a DNA test that could disclose a predisposition to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart-muscle disease that can cause sudden death in athletes.

Sports: To Play or Not To Play 2007

Six weeks ago the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles began a protocol unique in America, treating patients with intracoronary injections of autologous bone-marrow-derived cells to repair heart-muscle damage caused by a recent heart attack (in the preceding two weeks).

Mail Call 2007

He suspects this huge dose of a powerful hormone disrupts the way heart cells take up calcium, which is essential for heart-muscle cells to contract.

The Good Heart 2007

Implanted stem cells from muscles fail to produce a key protein called Connexin 43 that would normally allow them to properly conduct electrical impulses, as heart-muscle cells must do.

REBUILDING THE HEART 2007