Researchers map heart recovery after heart attack with great detail
E-Mail IMAGE: Shown is an infarcted heart in which green represents cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells), red shows B2M expression and blue represents cell nuclei. The area deprived of green is the infarcted... view more Credit: Louk Timmer © Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute mapped the recovery of the heart after a heart attack with great detail. They found that heart muscle cells - also called cardiomyocytes - play an important role in the intracellular communication after a heart attack. The researchers documented their findings in a database that is acce...
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