Cardiac muscle tissue is only found in your heart. It performs involuntary, coordinated contractions that allow your heart to pump blood through your circulatory system. Cardiac muscle tissue is ...

Cardiac failure is a critical condition that results in life ... muscle. The improvements in elasticity and stretchability of hydrogels could address issues of mechanical stability with current ...

A promising approach: cardiac muscle tissue made of spider silk. Ever more people are suffering from cardiac insufficiency, despite significant advances in preventing and minimising damage to the ...

That's the conclusion of a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science ... tested heart tissue samples of human patients. "Textbook microscopic images of injured heart muscles all look the same ...

"Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy leads to arrhythmia with a loss of cardiac muscle cells, deposits of connective tissue and fat within the cardiac muscle. This can cause sudden cardiac death ...

A new biomaterial delivered to the heart soon after a heart attack can heal damaged tissue from the inside out. Heart attacks kill cardiac muscle tissue ... Christman notes. Science News ...

people may one day be helped to recover from heart attacks by having specially engineered patches that have been seeded with cardiac cells placed over the damaged tissue in their hearts.

The problem with scar tissue on the heart is the fact that, unlike regular cardiac muscle tissue, it can't expand and contract. This means that the heart as a whole likewise can't expand and ...

Cardiac stem cell ... ability to produce new tissue. Some scientists are now lauding the results of a report published in April in Circulation as “undeniable evidence” against the idea that resident ...

CT axial images were analyzed ... especially muscle mass and SATI [subcutaneous adipose tissue index], may have important prognostic value in CA [cardiac amyloidosis]," wrote the study authors.