Heart disease is a major cause of death around the world. In the United States, about one out of every four deaths is caused by heart disease. One of the most dangerous forms is coronary artery ...

Dr. Mete Civelek from the University of Virginia School of Medicine explained that smooth muscle cells, which line our blood ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

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The effect of these cells was confirmed by injecting the stem cells into the diseased mice, which lead to regeneration of their heart muscles. The similar heart stem cells were found in leg ...

Smooth muscle α-actin missense variant promotes atherosclerosis through modulation of intracellular cholesterol in smooth muscle cells. European Heart Journal, 2023; DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad373 ...

Microplastics could be bad for your heart. Here’s everything you need to know about this shocking study – and some ...

Under 3D microscopy, the doughnut-shaped organoids were organized with cardiomyocytes and smooth muscle cells on the inside, along with an outer layer of endothelial cells that formed unmistakable ...

Doctors in Arizona extracted stem cells from Cohen's thigh muscles, called myoblasts, and grew them in a laboratory. During bypass surgery, doctors injected 300 million of Cohen's own muscle cells ...

A muscle patch crafted from stem cells has improved cardiac function in monkeys with heart disease. It is now being tested in a small number of people, with early results from the first recipient ...