{"id":1042417,"date":"2012-01-29T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/creating-smooth-muscle-cells-from-skin-cells\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:57:22","slug":"creating-smooth-muscle-cells-from-skin-cells-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/creating-smooth-muscle-cells-from-skin-cells-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Creating Smooth Muscle Cells from Skin Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another example of work on creating patient-specific cells to order, one of the necessary building block technologies needed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2009\/12\/considering-the-outer-limits-of-organ-bioprinting.php\">an industry that constructs organs<\/a> and other larger masses of tissue in the body: researchers have \"discovered a method of generating different types of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vascular_smooth_muscle\">vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs)<\/a> - the cells which make up the walls of blood vessels - using cells from patients' skin. ... <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardiovascular_disease\">Cardiovascular disease<\/a> is the leading cause of death in the world. These deaths are mainly caused by the hardening and subsequent blockage of blood vessels due to the accumulation of fatty materials, a condition called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atherosclerosis\">atherosclerosis<\/a>. As not all patients are suitable for conventional stenting or bypass treatment, an option in the future may be to grow new blood vessels to bypass their own blocked vessels. The [team] worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Embryonic_stem_cell\">embryonic stem cells<\/a> and reprogrammed skin cells, collectively known as human <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pluripotency\">pluripotent<\/a> stem cells (hPSCs), which have the potential to form any cell type in the body. They discovered a method of creating all the major vascular smooth muscle cells in high purity using hPSCs which can also be easily scaled up for production of clinical-grade SMCs. This is the first time that such a system has been developed and will open the door for comparative studies on different subtypes of SMCs to be carried out, which are otherwise extremely difficult to obtain from patients.\"<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2012-01-cambridge-team-smooth-muscle-cells.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2012-01-cambridge-team-smooth-muscle-cells.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm\">http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another example of work on creating patient-specific cells to order, one of the necessary building block technologies needed for an industry that constructs organs and other larger masses of tissue in the body: researchers have \"discovered a method &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/creating-smooth-muscle-cells-from-skin-cells-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}