{"56429":{"#nid":"56429","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Right Recipe","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn Emory research team believes it has found the right recipe of ingredients to one day make safe, effective drug-laden microparticles for heart attack patients.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team, led by biomedical engineer Michael E. Davis, found that injecting animal hearts with microparticles formulated with the polymer PCADK\u2014poly(cyclohexane-1,4-diylacetone dimethylene ketone)\u2014improved cardiac function after simulated heart attack. Unlike other \u201ccarrier\u201d molecules, PCADK degrades into two benign substances: 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, an FDA-approved food additive, and acetone, an endogenous compound.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/whsc.emory.edu\/home\/publications\/medicine\/emory-medicine\/summer2009\/right-recipe.html\u0027\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers believe that a number of anti-inflammatory drugs, if delivered directly into the heart following heart attack, could prevent permanent damage and prolong heart function. The challenge, however, is finding an effective way to deliver the drugs. Some drugs require such large doses that toxicity becomes a risk. Others must be injected daily. Certain drug delivery methods themselves can cause inflammation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new microparticle-drug combination may be key to reducing infl"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2009-07-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56430":{"id":"56430","type":"image","title":"Pulse","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894501","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:41","alt":"Pulse","file":{"fid":"190470","name":"tav09152.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tav09152_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tav09152_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77552,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tav09152_0.jpg?itok=NhVgIYyJ"}}},"media_ids":["56430"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"9550","name":"gtech"},{"id":"8949","name":"Heart Disease"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}