image: UC San Diego bioengineers demonstrated in a study in pigs that a new injectable hydrogel gets hearts moving more like they should -- as measured by the Global Wall Motion Index (GWMI) -- in hearts following heart attack. After a heart attack, the score was elevated; however, for pigs that were treated with the hydrogel, this index score dropped back closer to normal. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 20, 2013, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Sonya Seif-Naraghi at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues was titled, “Safety and Efficacy of an Injectable Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel for Treating Myocardial Infarction.” view more
Credit: Karen Christman, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering