Laboratory experiments and recent clinical trials suggest that cell-based therapies can improve cardiac function ... including cardiac muscle cells, indicating that the heart is not terminally ...

Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ...

Keep reading to learn more about the function and structure of ... Your pacemaker cells are connected to other cardiac muscle cells, allowing them to pass along signals. This results in a wave ...

In a paper published in the January 2009 issue of Circulation Research, the investigators report that pravastatin mobilizes bone marrow progenitor cells ... into cardiac muscle cells, or ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Statins, used widely to treat elevated cholesterol, have been shown to prevent progression of coronary narrowing and to have other beneficial effects on the heart, such as reducing ...

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, problems arise because the damage is largely repaired by scar ...

"Indeed, after six days, we could see changes in the heart, including initial remodeling processes in the muscle and changes in the activity of a variety of genes, most notably genes involved in cell ...

Individual metabolites from energy production also have important functions for the activity of enzymes that regulate gene activities. We therefore hoped to trigger changes in gene activities by ...

Figure 5: Hypertrophic signals dissociate 7SK snRNA from the cyclin T–Cdk9 complex, which is sufficient to trigger cardiac muscle cell growth. To prove whether increased growth likewise would ...

Mount Sinai's Cardiovascular Research Institute is sending bioengineered human heart muscle cells and ... of how these engineered cardiac cells and tissues function, we can find new ways to ...

A muscle patch crafted from stem cells has improved cardiac function in monkeys with heart disease. It is now being tested in a small number of people, with early results from the first recipient ...