News tagged with cardiac muscle
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A strategy to fix a broken heart (w/ Video)
These days people usually don't die from a heart attack. But the damage to heart muscle is irreversible, and most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle - and then watched it beat - by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A heart of gold: Better tissue repair after heart attack (Update)
A team of researchers at MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston has built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue whose cells all beat in time, mimicking ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 25, 2011 |
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DNA sequence variations linked to electrical signal conduction in the heart
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying genetic data from nearly 50,000 people have uncovered several DNA sequence variations associated with the electrical impulses that make the heart beat. The findings, reported in Nature Ge ...
Nov 14, 2010 |
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A cardiac use for stem cells
It's one of the most vexing problems in medical science: How can you mend a broken heart?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Running a marathon halts cellular suicide
Apoptosis, the natural 'programmed' death of cells, is arrested in the aftermath of strenuous exercise. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Physiology studied peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), isolat ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 11, 2010 |
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Mountain mice show adaptation to altitude
This fuel-preference represents an adaptation in high altitude mice to use oxygen more efficiently than their low-altitude counterparts.
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Scientists identify critical enzyme in healthy heart function
Scientists are reporting the first-ever data to show that the enzyme calcineurin is critical in controlling normal development and function of heart cells, and that loss of the protein leads to heart problems and death in ...
Feb 19, 2010 |
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A 'stitch in time' could help damaged hearts
A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has demonstrated the feasibility of a novel technology that a surgeon could use to deliver stem cells to targeted areas of the body to repair diseased ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Thinner thighs, weaker heart
Men and women whose thighs are less than 60cm in circumference have a higher risk of premature death and heart disease, according to research published on BMJ.com today. The study also concluded that individuals whose thighs ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 03, 2009 |
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New genetic link between cardiac arrhythmias and thyroid dysfunction identified
Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle -- a healthy heartbeat -- have now also been found to play a key role in thyroid hormone (TH) biosynthesis, according ...
Sep 20, 2009 |
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Scientists identify key molecular regulator of cardiac hypertrophy
Scientists have identified a key molecular regulator of cardiac hypertrophy (enlargement of the heart) that may provide a therapeutic target for a major risk factor of heart failure and early death.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Scientists find cause of fatal inflammation of the heart muscle
Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), jointly with colleagues in the United States, have found out that inflammations of the heart muscle are caused by attacks of a specific ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Cheney's 5 heart attacks unusual, shows good care
(AP) -- Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual - showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta blockers
In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 20, 2009 |
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