NEWS Dr Pierre Margent | 04 June 2024 Each year in the United States, 750,000 patients are diagnosed with myocardial infarction (MI). Far more patients are evaluated for suspected MI. The diagnosis is often considered during an emergency department visit, sometimes with atypical signs, nonspecific symptoms, or even in the absence of symptoms. Up to...
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Scientists characterize the imbalanced gut bacteria of patients with myocardial infarction, angina and heart failure
by University of Copenhagen Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health The human gut contains trillions of bacteria, collectively called the gut microbiome, which may have positive and negative effects on human health. When in balance they function as an inner chemistry factory...
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‘Immortality protein’ within the mitochondria offers protection in myocardial infarction
by Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf Mitochondrial TERT is present in heart mitochondria of mitoTERT mice 7 days after myocardial infarction. 7 days after infarction in a mitoTERT animal (mito), a transverse cardiac section was stained for mitochondrially targeted TERT expressed from the knockin into the ROSA26 locus using an anti-myc antibody. Mitochondria were visualized with an...