AUGUST 17. LONDON - All of us adore seaweeds soup, but have you ever thought that these marine delights could mend a damaged heart? I am sure you never did.
Scientists and medical practitioners have been struggling for over a decade on how to prevent any more tissue damage in case of heart attack sufferers. Finally, a team from Israel has come up with a seaweed gel, which could keep further damages at a bay.
The researchers say that the gel, once injected into the damaged area of the heart is solidified, thereby allowing scar tissues to develop in thick layers. This enables the normal functioning of the heart.
The usual brown seaweed is used for making this gel and it is injected into the heart through a catheter fed, right into the vein and in the groin.
Professor Smedar Cohen, the head of the team which has brought in this miraculous gel at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, was quoted saying, “What it does is quite remarkable”, by British newspaper Daily Mail.
The gel has been tried on animals and 90 % of the cases have survived heart attack, as compared to the 40% who did not receive any treatment. Germany, Israel and Belgium has started trails on people as well,
and if there is a significant rate of success, then the product is expected to hit the market by the year
2011.
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