by Indiana University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by Indiana University School of Medicine is challenging standard treatment methods used to prevent muscle damage during heart attack. In a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Rohan Dharmakumar, Ph.D. asserts that a common treatment given to patients experiencing heart attack may...
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, STUDY AUTHORS YUENING LIU, PENG XIA, ZHAOKANG CHENG, AND JINGRUI CHEN AND GRADUATE STUDENT JOSHUA GALLO. THEIR WORK TO UNCOVER THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH HEART MUSCLE CELLS DIE AFTER HEART ATTACK TREATMENT COULD SOMEDAY LEAD TO NEW TREATMENT STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE SURVIVAL AND LIFESPAN OF HEART...
by Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute A zebrafish. Credit: Victo Chang Cardiac Research Institute Scientists at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney have discovered a critical new gene that it is hoped could help human hearts repair damaged heart muscle after a heart attack. Researchers have identified a genetic switch in zebrafish that turns on cells allowing them to divide...
