A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has developed a noninvasive method to monitor the electrical activity inside heart muscle cells from the ...

The heart’s natural healing ability is limited but groundbreaking research and advanced therapies are offering new hope for ...

Rho kinase (ROCK) is activated in cardiac hypertrophy ... including muscle cells, fibroblasts, immune cells, extracellular matrix and vascular tissue, and all can contribute to greater wall ...

It may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure, the deadliest non-communicable disease on ...

It is well known that cells detect and respond to mechanical stresses by metabolic alterations ... In particular, our group is focused primarily on cartilage tissue engineering, but will soon be ...

In both affected siblings, an accumulation of amorphous material immunoreactive for desmin, dystrophin and vimentin was observed in the cytoplasm of the skeletal muscle cells. An uncle and the ...

A new study co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart Center has unveiled that a subset of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle tissue.

Injecting infarcted pig hearts with specially bioengineered cells significantly decreased the infarct area and improved heart ...

"Skeletal muscle has a significant ability ... method of carbon dating human heart tissue to track whether these samples contained newly generated cells. The investigators found that patients ...

But what if we could reprogram the body's own cells to restore damaged tissue? This question has ... patient's own cells to repair their heart." Direct cardiac reprogramming, a process that ...