BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

Bioluminescent imaging is helping researchers better understand the effectiveness of tissue regeneration enhancers delivered to injured heart tissue by different adeno-associated virus vectors.

Muscle stem cells articles from across Nature Portfolio Muscle stem cells are adult stem cells, present in skeletal muscle tissue, which can self-renew and are capable of giving rise to skeletal ...

Amyloid heart disease occurs when faulty proteins build up in the heart, making it more difficult for the heart to pump blood around the body. Learn more about it here.

Among the 3 tissue layers forming the mature adult heart (endocardium, myocardium, and epicardium), comparatively less attention has been paid to the endocardium, as it was primarily thought as a ...

Ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction elicits structural and functional changes that can compromise global cardiac function. To determine whether age influences this process, we ...