News tagged with cardiac tissue
Scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue
(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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How do you mend a broken heart?
Damaged heart tissue is not known for having much inherent capacity for repair. But now, scientists are closing in on signals that may be able to coax the heart into producing replacement cardiac muscle cells. Using a zebrafish ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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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 ...
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Sep 25, 2011 |
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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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New stretchable electronics device promises to make cardiac ablation therapy simpler
In an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can be a long and painful procedure ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Heart-targeting Listeria increase cardiac disease risk
Certain strains of the food pathogen Listeria are uniquely adapted to infect heart tissues and may put people at a higher risk from serious cardiac disease, according to a new study published in the Journal of ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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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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Stem cell patch may result in improved function following heart attack
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have found that applying a stem cell-infused patch together with overexpression of a specific cell instruction molecule promoted cell migration to damaged cardiac tissue following ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 15, 2010 |
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German researchers use light to make the heart stumble
Tobias Brugmann and his colleagues from the University of Bonn's Institute of Physiology I used a so-called "channelrhodopsin" for their experiments, which is a type of light sensor. At the same time, it can act as an ion ...
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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'Firefly' stem cells may help repair damaged hearts
Stem cells that glow like fireflies could someday help doctors heal damaged hearts without cutting into patients' chests.
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?
Chaos models may someday help model cardiac arrhythmias -- abnormal electrical rhythms of the heart, say researchers in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Specific blood-derived cells promote survival in heart attack model
A research team from McGill University (Canada) report a beneficial effect on cardiac function in mouse models when implanted monocytes - a type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system - helped preserve cardiac ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Imaging fat layer around heart can help predict disease
Imaging epicardial adipose tissue, or the layer of fat around the heart, can provide extra information compared with standard diagnostic techniques such as coronary artery calcium scoring, according to research by cardiologists ...
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Mar 15, 2010 |
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Using own skin cells to repair hearts on horizon
A heart patient's own skin cells soon could be used to repair damaged cardiac tissue thanks to pioneering stem cell research of the University of Houston's newest biomedical scientist, Robert Schwartz.
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2009 |
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