Medical experts note that due to oxygen deficiency, blood supply worsens and a heart attack occurs, therefore, it is necessary to supply the heart cells with the necessary amount. For this, bacteria Synechococcus elongatus were used, which produce oxygen.

Staff at Stanford and Pennsylvania Universities, led by Joseph Wu, have recommended a rather unusual way to deliver oxygen to the myocardium and experience in mice has yielded a positive result.. But while the possibility of introducing the method in the treatment of people is unclear.

As a result of the experiment, scientists, causing a heart attack in mice, infected their heart muscles with the bacteria Synechococcus elongatus and their hearts remained in the light, so the bacteria had the opportunity for photosynthesis. After 10 minutes, the oxygen content in these mice increased 25 times, and after 45 minutes, hearts with photosynthetic bacteria pumped 60 percent more blood than hearts not left in the sunlight.

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