Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we ...

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

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

Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases ... metabolic flexibility in mouse cardiac tissue.

We are interested in exploiting the hydrogel environment to study mechanotransduction pathways as well as developing novel scaffolds combined with mechanical conditioning for tissue engineering. In ...

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.

The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients ... meaning that their cardiac muscle regenerates. “It’s not clear why some patients respond and some don’t, but it’s very ...

all three siblings developed progressive muscle weakness and atrophy with swallowing and breathing difficulties. The two older siblings died of progressive fibrosis of the cardiac conduction ...

Cardiac enzymes are released into the circulation when myocardial necrosis occurs, as seen in myocardial infarction. Myoglobin is released into circulation with any damage to muscle tissue ...