Can nerve growth factor gene therapy prevent diabetic heart disease?

[Northerner]

Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and can reduce blood supply to the heart tissue and damage cardiac cells, resulting in heart failure.

New research has investigated if nerve growth factor (NGF) gene therapy can prevent diabetic heart failure and small vascular disease in mice.
The study by Professor Costanza Emanueli, British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow and colleagues of the Bristol Heart Institute in the Regenerative Medicine Section of the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol is published online in Diabetes, which is the journal of the American Diabetes Association.

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2011/8132.html

 

[trophywench]

There must be thousands - if not millions by now - of really healthy diabetic mice.

Shame one can't say the same about diabetic humans .....