Medera is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting difficult-to-treat and currently incurable diseases ...

Progenitor cells that will contribute to formation of specific heart tissues are derived from distinct regions of the primitive streak in the developing mouse embryo. This study utilizes light-sheet ...

Medera Inc. (“Medera”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeting cardiovascular diseases by developing a range of next-generation therapeutics, today announced that data from ...

The scarring of the heart tissue after a myocardial infarction suggests that the myocytes are unable to divide. In June 7 New England Journal of Medicine Antonio Beltrami and colleagues from the New ...

Elite rowers have some of the lowest resting heart rates of any athletes. (Image credit: Getty Images) Rowing and running elicit different heart rate responses even if these activities are ...

Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ...

Calcium-Induced Calcium Release (CICR) Within Cardiac Myocytes Excitation-contraction coupling occurs within cardiac muscle cells in response to calcium-induced calcium release, CICR. When L-type ...

The heart consists of different cell types, including cardiac myocytes, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and others. Therefore, cell type–specific analysis is needed to gain mechanistic insight into ...

The study, done in cell lines and mice, may lead to methods of reprogramming a patient's own cardiac myocytes within the heart itself to create new muscle to repair damage, said Dr. Robb MacLellan ...