Safety Study of Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) to Treat Acute Myocardial Infarction

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether adult stem cells \[Provacel™(PUMP1)\] are safe and possibly effective in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Timeline

Start

2005-03-22

Primary completion

2006-10-04

Completion

2008-04-24

Publications

• Background Orlic D, Hill JM, Arai AE. Stem cells for myocardial regeneration. Circ Res. 2002 Dec 13;91(12):1092-102. doi: 10.1161/01.res.0000046045.00846.b0.
• Background Pittenger MF, Martin BJ. Mesenchymal stem cells and their potential as cardiac therapeutics. Circ Res. 2004 Jul 9;95(1):9-20. doi: 10.1161/01.RES.0000135902.99383.6f.
• Background Shake JG, Gruber PJ, Baumgartner WA, Senechal G, Meyers J, Redmond JM, Pittenger MF, Martin BJ. Mesenchymal stem cell implantation in a swine myocardial infarct model: engraftment and functional effects. Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Jun;73(6):1919-25; discussion 1926. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(02)03517-8.
• Hare JM, Traverse JH, Henry TD, Dib N, Strumpf RK, Schulman SP, Gerstenblith G, DeMaria AN, Denktas AE, Gammon RS, Hermiller JB Jr, Reisman MA, Schaer GL, Sherman W. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study of intravenous adult human mesenchymal stem cells (prochymal) after acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Dec 8;54(24):2277-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.06.055.

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