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Dvir said. "We saw good electrical sig-
naling, which is extremely important to
the heart. The patches we made using
the gold are much superior"
The researchers say the heart cells
grown in cardiac patches need time to
develop the proteins that enable them
to conduct electricity — time someone
with heart damage may not have. With
their cardiac patch, they say, the gold
nanoparticles do the job until the pro-
teins can.
Since finishing the study, the
researchers have been transplanting the
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cardiac patch into rats with damaged
hearts. Preliminary results suggest that
the gold-coating greatly improves the
cardiac patches' capacity to conduct
electricity from the healthy part of the
heart, they say.
The next step is to try making the
cardiac patches with tissue from the rats
receiving them. From there, it's on to
larger animals, and eventually to clinical
trials.
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Prof. Tal Dvir, a Tel Aviv University bioengi-
neer, led the cardiac patch study team.
Sky Foundation Annual Lunch
Set For Nov. 2
November is Pancreas Cancer
Awareness month. Sky Foundation Inc.
will use the opportunity to start the
month with its annual Sky Bistro lunch
from noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, at the
Townsend Hotel.
Sky Foundation Inc. is dedicated to
raising funds to advance research and
increase awareness for the early detec-
tion and treatment of pancreas cancer.
In 2020, pancreas cancer is projected
to become this country's second-leading
cancer killer (claiming 48,000 lives each
year), surpassed only by lung cancer.
Pancreas cancer is at No. 4 today and
will climb in the ranking partly by
becoming more common, but mostly
because it is ferociously difficult to
detect and treat.
"The dramatic increase in the antici-
pated number of deaths is a wake-up
call to the research and health-care sys-
tems',' said Sheila Kasselman, pancreas
cancer survivor and founder of Sky
Foundation Inc., based in Bloomfield
Hills.
"We focus on the person, and our goal
is to empower and bring hope to those
affected by the disease:' she said.
Many symptoms of pancreas cancer
are vague and could be attributed to dif-
ferent conditions. Symptoms can include
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Professor Tal Dvir, a bioengineer at Tel Aviv University and leader of the
cardiac patch heart study, at work in his lab
abdominal and back pain, weight loss,
jaundice, loss of appetite, nausea, sud-
den-onset diabetes and depression. With
pancreas cancer, sensing even subtle
body changes is critical, as is awareness
of family history.
Sky Foundation recommends genetic
counseling as one important step in
prevention for individuals who have
first-tier relatives (parent or sibling)
or two or more second-tier relatives
(grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins)
with a history of pancreas cancer.
Many health facilities in Metro Detroit
have cancer genetics programs, includ-
ing the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute, Henry Ford Health System,
Beaumont Hospital and the University
of Michigan. Awareness of family his-
tory and changes in your body are criti-
cal to your well-being.
Sky Foundation has awarded a grant
to the Pancreatic Cancer Center at
the University of Michigan. Dr. Diane
Simeone, director of the center, will be
the featured guest speaker at the Nov. 2
lunch, along with Dr. Philip Philip from
the Karmanos Cancer Institute.
For more information or tickets, go
to www.skyfoundation.com , call (248)
385-5143 or email sheilakasselman@
skyfoundation.org.
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