News tagged with pacemaker cells

Success in patients with major depression: For the first time, physicians stimulated patients' medial forebrain bundles

Researchers from the Bonn University Hospital implanted pacemaker electrodes into the medial forebrain bundle in the brains of patients suffering from major depression with amazing results: In six out of ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 09, 2013 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 5

Ordinary heart cells become 'biological pacemakers' with injection of a single gene

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene (Tbx18)–a major step forward in the decade-long search ...

Medical research Dec 16, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Researcher finds caffeine consumption, female infertility link

Caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from a woman's ovaries to her womb. "Our experiments were conducted in mice, but this finding goes a long way towards explaining why drinking caffeinated ...

Medical research Jul 20, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Why caffeine can reduce fertility in women

Medical research May 26, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Rhythm is it: Ion channels ensure the heart keeps time

The heartbeat is the result of rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle, which are in turn regulated by electrical signals called action potentials. Action potentials result from the controlled flow of ions into heart muscle ...

Cardiology Sep 09, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0