These putative cardiac stem cells are clonogenic and have the capacity to self-renew and differentiate into cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells. The potential advantages of ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative gene-therapy strategy ...

A team at CNIC has developed an innovative gene therapy to treat arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 ...

But bones are unable to move on their own, so muscles pull on them at joints. Cardiac muscle cells contract and relax to pump blood around our bodies. Smooth muscle cells make up thin sheets of ...

A startup in Tokyo on Tuesday applied for approval from the Japanese government to manufacture and sell heart muscle sheets ...

There are different types of muscle cell, each perfectly adapted to its function: Cardiac (heart) muscle cells contract and relax to pump blood around our bodies for our entire lives. They never ...

composed of up to 200 million cells, improved heart function by forming new cardiac muscle. These new cardiac muscle cells are maintained under concomitant immunosuppression (weakening of the ...

Cardiac macrophages in newborn mice promoted heart cell proliferation after injury, offering a potential approach to ...