Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...

Although only tested in rats thus far, the polymer-based treatment could repair tissue that are impacted in a variety of ...

AICAR (5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide) peptide has garnered attention for its intriguing biological properties ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new injectable treatment that, when administered after a heart attack, helps the heart ...

Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...

The authors isolated and cultured pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMC) and pulmonary artery adventitial fibroblasts (PAAF) of the lung samples derived from the patients with idiopathic ...

This file photo taken at the University of Osaka in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, in January 2024, shows a cardiac muscle sheet made from iPS cells. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A startup in Tokyo on ...

It has been shown that the regulation of the extracellular matrix via cardiac fibroblasts plays a major role in ... of proinflammatory genes through endothelin in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs).

Strain assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a key prognostic indicator in myocardial infarction. However, the strain characteristics and prognostic value in myocardial infarction with ...

Since evidence is emerging that targeted intervention programmes can prevent muscle tissue alterations ... The use of a CVD-free population is really important, since cardiac patients have a different ...

The first examined how stem cells differentiate into heart muscle ... to generate cardiac cells more efficiently with improved survival when transplanted into damaged heart tissue, which would ...