News tagged with heart tissue
Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...
Researchers define barriers to successful heart cell transplants
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a novel cell injection test-bed to evaluate the barriers to transplanted cell integration with cardiac tissue. The results provide insights into the ...
A master mechanism for regeneration?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2009 |
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ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.
New insights into cardiac aging
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the conserved protein d4eBP modulates cardiac aging in Drosophila (fruit flies). The team also found that d4eBP, which binds to the protein ...
Unexpected reservoir of monocytes discovered in the spleen
Jul 30, 2009 |
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It takes a spleen to mend a broken heart - that's the conclusion of a surprising new report from researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Systems Biology, directed by Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD. ...
Stem cells not the only way to fix a broken heart
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Researchers appear to have a new way to fix a broken heart. They have devised a method to coax heart muscle cells into reentering the cell cycle, allowing the differentiated adult cells to divide and regenerate healthy heart ...
Cell transplantation and cardiac repair
Jul 01, 2009 |
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The frontiers of cell transplantation for cardiac repair are discussed in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol. 18 No.3), now available on-line.
Heating heart with catheter better than drugs for common heart rhythm disorder
May 14, 2009 |
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Treating a common heart rhythm disorder by burning heart tissue with a catheter works dramatically better than drug treatments, a major international study has found.
A missing enzyme conveys major heart protection in pre-clinical work
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Mice born without a certain enzyme can resist the normal effects of a heart attack and retain nearly normal function in the heart's ventricles and still-oxygenated heart tissue, according to a study by researchers at Duke ...
Doctor finds a way to treat a controversial angina in the heart's tiny arteries
Mar 27, 2009 |
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Most chest pain is caused by fatty deposits that hinder blood flow through the main, spaghetti-thick arteries of the heart.
