Health News from Medical News Today: Researchers Bringing Failing Hearts Back From The Brink

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Researchers Bringing Failing Hearts Back From The Brink 31 May 2011, 9:00 am A promising cancer treatment drug can restore function of a heart en route to failure from high blood pressure, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The drug, a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor being evaluated in numerous ongoing clinical trials, has been shown to reverse the harmful effects of autophagy in heart muscle cells of mice. Autophagy is a natural process by which cells eat their own proteins to provide needed resources in times of stress. The new study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.