New research shows that the heart has a mini-brain—its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat by Karolinska Institutet Neuroanatomy of the adult zebrafish intracardiac nervous system.
Dr. Kevin Watt, team leader of the Heart Regeneration and Disease Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, Australia, understands this concept deeply.
This study is the first to inject repeated doses of stem cells intravenously into patients who have heart failure due to a heart attack or coronary artery disease.