From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@xocolatl.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 16:26:46 MST
It's going to be very interesting to see if this leads anywhere...
Dr. Richard T. Lee, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical
School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues took 880
bioactive substances -- including both drugs approved by the Food and Drug
Administration and vitamins -- to see what impact, if any, they might have
on animal embryonic stem cells.
Of the substances tested, only one worked, Lee and colleagues report in the
April 1 issue of the journal Circulation. Ascorbic acid -- the chemical
compound more commonly known as vitamin C -- caused the new differentiated
heart cells to beat spontaneously and rhythmically.
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