H-FABP: A beacon of hope for prediabetic heart disease

NORD. A beacon of hope for people with rare disorders

Fear strikes at the heart when a diagnosis of cancer is made. Life as the person knows it is forever changed. But then consider the added impact of learning for you or a loved one who has a rare form of cancer. Perhaps there are only 100 reported cases in the literature – or fewer – and few researchers, if any, are studying that type of tumor. This is where our organization, NORD (www.raredisea...

Cellular immunotherapy as a beacon of hope for hematological malignancies

Recently, successful cancer immunotherapy has aroused great interest in application of this approach in hematological malignancies. Immune responsiveness is a key clinical feature of hematological malignancies. Indeed, the efficacy of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) largely derives from graft-versus-tumor effects that highlight the ability of the immune system to speci...

Heart-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP) Key Publications

Heart-type Fatty Acid-Binding Protein (H-FABP) Key Publications

11374: In Acute Coronary Syndromes, Heart-type Fatty Acid Binding Protein is a More Accurate Predictor of Long Term Prognosis than Troponin. Ian R Pearson; Alistair S Hall; Christopher P Gale; Mohan U Sivananthan; Karthik Viswanathan; Niamh Kilcullen; Julian H Barth Leeds Teaching Hosps NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom Reference Ian R Pearson; Alistair S Hall; Christopher P Gale; Mohan U Sivana...

Hope for a Broken Heart?

Heated debate has surrounded the issue of whether adult stem cells can differentiate into cardiac myocytes and contribute to the function of the heart. In this issue of Cell, demonstrate stem cells in the adult rat heart that differentiate into cardiac myocytes in vitro and, when injected into the adult rat heart, can reconstitute the injured myocardium and improve function. These findings shou...