The reason for this could be that the individual heart muscle cells are permanently and very closely connected to form a so-called electrical syncytium. The individual cells are interconnected via ...

But although this trick improves heart function in some cases, it cannot generate new cardiac muscle. Another strategy, established mainly through animal studies, has been to force muscle cells to ...

We therefore hoped to trigger changes in gene activities by reprogramming energy metabolism to turn cell division ability back on in cardiac muscle cells." In further studies, the scientists were able ...

Heart attacks cause both long- and short-term problems. In the short-term, the death of cardiac muscle cells can cause a critical drop in the heart's ability to function. Over the long haul ...

Before considering specific inhibitors of cardiac hypertrophy, it is worth summarizing what one is trying to reverse. The heart is composed of multiple cell types, including muscle cells ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Epigenome of cardiac muscle cell mapped Date: October 28, 2014 Source: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Summary: Pharmacologists have succeeded in mapping the epigenome of cardiac muscle cells ...

A better alternative may be to use human heart muscle ... cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The next goals will be to determine if these large animal experiments show similar improvements in cardiac ...

A better alternative may be to use heart muscle ... stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The next goals will be to determine if these large animal experiments show similar improvements in cardiac ...

Scientists of University of Würzburg have for the first time succeeded in generating beating cardiac muscle cells from special stem cells. They may provide a new approach for the treatment of heart ...