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 ...

Efforts to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells to specific types of cells have drawn growing ... converted to heart muscle. For example, they found that both cardiac myosin and actin ...

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 ...

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 ...

and is a cardiac muscle grown in a laboratory from cardiac cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells embedded in a collagen hydrogel. The simulation of this treatment in monkeys was the ...

Researchers have identified a crucial growth factor, BMP7, capable of stimulating cardiac muscle cell proliferation and regeneration, potentially offering new treatments for heart injuries.

Cardiac complications in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are the result of cardiac muscle involvement that accompanies the ...

Through this experiment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers aim to gain a better understanding of how cardiac muscle cells, or cardiomyocytes, adapt to extreme biological stresses ...

Marion Richardson, BD, RN, Certed, DipNurs, RNT, is principal lecturer, University of Hertfordshire Without muscles, human beings would be unable to live - our hearts would not beat, blood would not ...