News tagged with mouse heart
Cancer-related pathways reveal potential treatment target for congenital heart disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cross-disciplinary teams of scientists studying genetic pathways that are mutated in many forms of cancer, but which also cause certain forms of congenital heart disease, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ...
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Three-way control of fetal heart-cell proliferation could help regenerate cardiac cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Heart muscle cells do not normally replicate in adult tissue, but multiply with abandoned during development. This is why the loss of heart muscle after a heart attack is so dire -- you can't ...
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Oct 07, 2010 |
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Important clue to understanding the pathogenesis of ciliary disorders
A research team led by Dr. Heiko Lickert of Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen has pinpointed a gene that is essential for the physiologically correct disassembly of cilia. Errors in the regulation of cilia assembly are implicated ...
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Jul 22, 2010 |
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Transplanted adult stem cells provide lasting help to injured hearts
Human adult stem cells injected around the damage caused by a heart attack survived in the heart and improved its pumping efficiency for a year in a mouse model, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...
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May 10, 2010 |
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Compound Shows Promise Against Intractable Heart Failure
(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemical compound found normally in the blood has shown promise in treating and preventing an intractable form of heart failure in a mouse model of the disease, report researchers at the University of Illinois ...
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Feb 11, 2010 |
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New year, new vitamin C discovery: It 'cures' mice with accelerated aging disease
A new research discovery published in the January 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal suggests that treatments for disorders that cause accelerated aging, particularly Werner's syndrome, might come straight from the fa ...
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Jan 04, 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.
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Oct 15, 2009 |
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Researchers isolate and purify mouse heart stem cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering Cornell and University of Bonn study has isolated and purified mouse heart stem cells, settling a debate over whether such cells exist.
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Study suggests possible treatment for neurological disorder Rett syndrome
Using injections of a small derivate of the protein insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), scientists at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have successfully treated ...
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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