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 ...

An international team of researchers has discovered how cholesterol can disrupt the internal functioning of the heart by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In cultured ventricular muscle cells, activated TAK1 reproduced the ... with severely impaired cardiac function and considerable early mortality. TAK1 is downregulated in the adult heart To ...

An MRI-agent “cage” that allows for the visualization of "zombie cells" and a new strategy to treat cardiovascular fibrosis ...

A new study led by researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) suggests that currently available therapies may help control chronic muscle inflammation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), ...

Mutations in these proteins perturb their interactions with other proteins and their function, which leads to disease. Research in the Leinwand lab focuses on unraveling mechanisms of genetic heart ...