No one can live without a heart pumping blood to the rest of the body. New research from the University of Missouri School of ...

New research from the University of Missouri School of Medicine reveals more information about this vital function and how it ...

COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects heart; models of tissue damage may help develop potential therapies Date: March 2 ...

Studying these heart tissue models, they determined that viral infection not only kills heart muscle cells but destroys the muscle fiber units responsible for heart muscle contraction.

"Our study is unique because it definitively shows that, in patients with COVID-19 who developed heart failure, the virus infects the heart, specifically heart muscle cells." ...

Troponin is a protein that’s found inside some of your muscles, including your heart muscle. It plays a critical role in cardiac muscle contraction. In other words, it helps your heart beat.

This new study is the first to identify specific "sweet taste" receptors, known as TAS1R2 and TAS1R3, on the surface of heart muscle cells. The work was presented at the 69th Biophysical Society ...

Moreover, while the deficiency in the ribosomal protein, known as RPL3L, altered translation dynamics for the entire tissue, its effects were most pronounced for proteins related cardiac muscle ...

"By leveraging cardiac mechano-electrical signaling between two layers of muscle, we recreated the cycle where each contraction results automatically as a response to the stretching on the ...