Medical network August 14th hearing, Canadian scientists have recently discovered that a protein called "heart nutrient -1" can be beneficial to myocardial cell expansion, so that myocardial health thickening, thereby enhancing cardiac function. The discovery provides a new way of treating heart disease.
A variety of factors, load increase hormone stimulation can lead to cardiac hypertrophy, including exercise and pregnancy induced physiological hypertrophy is beneficial, and the abnormal situation caused by pathological cardiac hypertrophy may damage the heart. In the two case, the mode of enlargement of cardiac myocytes and the changes of cardiac structure and function are quite different.
There has been some controversy about the role of the heart hormone -1. Canada Ottawa hospital, Ottawa University and other institutions, researchers in the UK before "natural" magazine sub journal "cell research" the report said, they confirmed by animal experiments, the protein is good heart, can repair myocardial injury, improve blood supply, alleviate the symptoms of heart failure. The researchers used heart nutrient -1 to treat rats with heart failure caused by various causes, and achieved remarkable results.
Heart failure patients are often unable to do enough exercise, and heart nutrients, -1, may help them, researchers said. Next, the researchers will test the effect of the protein on the human body and seek to use it in medical practice.
