Medical News Today reports: "Researchers have developed a 'protein patch' that they say reversed damage to mouse and pig hearts caused by heart attack. The new creation could be set to enter human clinical trials as early as 2017." During the course of their research, the scientists involved in the study discovered that the amount of a naturally occurring protein, Follistatin-like 1 (FSTL1), is greatly diminished in the lining of the heart following a heart attack. Restoring the protein stimulates cell regrowth and promotes the repair of scar tissue formed after a heart attack, or as the researchers say, "The data suggest that the loss of epicardial FSTL1 is a maladaptive response to injury, and that its restoration would be an effective way to reverse myocardial death and remodeling following myocardial infarction in humans."
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