Cardiac Rehabilitation With Dynamic Exercise Increases the Number of Muse Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Patients With Heart Disease

Abstract

Background: It is still unclear whether dynamic exercise increases the number of Muse cells, pluripotent stem cells, in the peripheral blood.

Methods and Results: The number of Muse cells, SSEA3⁺ and CD105⁺ double-positive cells, in the peripheral blood was measured using FACS before and after 40 min of cardiac rehabilitation with dynamic exercise in 6 patients with heart disease. The number of Muse cells significantly increased after cardiac rehabilitation in all patients. Muse cell mobilization may be related to the beneficial clinical outcome of cardiac rehabilitation.

Conclusions: Cardiac rehabilitation increases the number of Muse cells in the peripheral blood.