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RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (RGRX) Release: Scientists Report that Process of Converting Non-Beating Heart Cells into Functional, Beating Heart Cells is Enhanced Using Thymosin Beta 4 in Conjunction with Gene Therapy
4/18/2012 10:46:42 PM
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RGRX) (“the Company” or “RegeneRx”) announced today that scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco, have published new animal data in the current issue of Nature showing that the process of converting non-beating heart cells (which normally form scar tissue after a heart attack), into functional, beating heart muscle cells can be enhanced using Thymosin beta 4 (Tß4). Delivery of Tß4, in conjunction with GMT (an acronym for three genes that normally guide embryonic heart development), into the damaged region resulted in reduction of scar area and improvement in cardiac function compared to GMT or Tß4 alone. Within a month, non-beating cells that normally form scar tissue transformed into beating heart-muscle cells. Within three months, the hearts were beating even stronger and pumping more blood.
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