Cardiology
Rethinking cardiac repair after injury
A protein known mostly for its role in the brain may be a key player in the cardiovascular system as well, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature.
Dec 10, 2020
0
58
News tagged with cardiac muscle cells
Cardiology
Researchers unravel the healing mechanisms of extracellular vesicles
Extracellular vesicles (EVs)—nanometer sized messengers that travel between cells to deliver cues and cargo—are promising tools for the next generation of therapies for everything from autoimmune and neurodegenerative ...
Oct 15, 2020
0
51
Cardiology
Exosome treatment improves recovery from heart attacks in a preclinical study
Science has long known that recovery from experimental heart attacks is improved by injection of a mixture of heart muscle cells, endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells, yet results have been limited by poor engraftment ...
Sep 29, 2020
0
66
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows SARS-CoV-2 can infect heart cells in lab dish
A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), can infect heart cells in a lab dish, indicating it may be possible for heart cells in COVID-19 patients to be directly infected by the virus. ...
Jun 30, 2020
0
376
Cardiology
New target identified for repairing the heart after heart attack
Billions of cardiac muscle cells are lost during a heart attack. The human heart cannot replenish these lost cells, so the default mechanism of repair is to form a cardiac scar. While this scar works well initially to avoid ...
Jan 30, 2020
0
115
Medical research
Getting to the heart of heartbeats: Cardiac thin filament structure and function revealed
Researchers at Osaka University used electron cryomicroscopy (CryoEM) to image essential cardiac muscle components, known as thin filaments, with unprecedented resolution. They also discovered the mechanism by which these ...
Jan 9, 2020
0
51
Genetics
New insights into the healing capacity of the heart
A group of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Texas Heart Institute and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reveals today in the journal Genes & Development new insights into the recently ...
Sep 25, 2019
0
166
Cardiology
Novel dual stem cell therapy improving cardiac regeneration
As a medical emergency caused by severe cardiovascular diseases, myocardial infarction (MI) can inflict permanent and life-threatening damage to the heart. A joint research team comprising scientists from City University ...
Aug 9, 2019
0
520
Medical research
A new way to wind the development clock of cardiac muscle cells
These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind of cell in the human body, from neurons to heart cells.
May 15, 2019
0
131
Medical research
Process makes stem-cell-derived heart cells light up
A faster, more cost-efficient, and more accurate method of examining the effectiveness of human pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiac muscle cells has been discovered, according to researchers from Penn State.
Dec 19, 2018
0
71
