Research team discovers how Copaxone protects the heart muscle and improves its function after heart attack

Cardiac sections of mice after an injury simulating a heart attack. In mice that were treated with Copaxone (bottom row), the sections reveal greater integrity of heart muscle tissue (green) and the expression of a protein (yellow) that prevents the death of heart muscle cells. Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis in laboratory animals. The scientists—Prof. Michael Sela, Prof. Ruth Arnon and Dr. Dvora Teitelbaum—were surprised to discover that, instead of causing the disease, Read More