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 ...

The heart is composed of multiple cell types ... Does the agent prevent cardiac dilation, improve intrinsic muscle function, reduce fibrosis and improve cardiac vascular supply/demand balance?

A repeated intravenous cardiosphere-derived cell therapy called CAP-1002 (also known as deramiocel) demonstrated efficacy on measures of both skeletal and cardiac myopathy in ... to assess its effect ...

composed of up to 200 million cells, improved heart function by forming new cardiac muscle. These new cardiac muscle cells are maintained under concomitant immunosuppression (weakening of the ...

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 ...

The cell therapy also slowed muscle deterioration, with patients receiving it showing a decline in an index of upper arm function of four points after three years compared to 7.7 in the external ...

The change in gene activity causes cardiac muscle cells to become immature ... we double the number of heart muscle cells, and after an infarction, heart function is almost completely restored."In ...

These pathways were involved in cardiac hypertrophy signaling ... collectively lead to an alteration in vascular smooth muscle cell functions. Future studies are needed to determine the specific ...

Study shows that cardiac spheroids, derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, can be easily transported and injected into damaged areas of the heart to promote its regeneration and ...

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 ...

The researchers behind the work used RNAs to instruct cells in an injured heart to eliminate scar tissue and recreate cardiac muscle, allowing the heart to function like new again. Cardiovascular ...