A myocardial infarction causes the death of massive numbers of heart cells. To repair the injury, the body replaces the damaged and dead cells with scar tissue. Initially, the scar tissue is ...

The latest research developments to reprogram scar tissue resulting from myocardial infarction (MI) into viable heart muscle cells, were presented at the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB ...

A myocardial infarction, or heart attack, can be a complication of this, resulting from tissue damage or death that affects heart function. Both cause similar symptoms, though ischemia may be ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba showed that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart ...

The results show that the mice, following myocardial infarction, ... "There are attempts to treat the scar tissue with gene therapy or stem cells - by contrast, ...

German scientists from the Bonn University Hospital successfully tested a method in mice allowing the morphological and functional sequelae of a myocardial infarction to be reduced.

Areas of thinned myocardium (≤5.5 mm) were previously thought to be regions of transmural infarction, without remaining viable tissue. However, new data using late-enhancement cardiovascular ...

A myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, remains one of the leading causes of illness and death worldwide. ... It led to less collagen build-up in the scar tissue, ...

A myocardial infarction causes the death of massive numbers of heart cells. To repair the injury, the body replaces the damaged and dead cells with scar tissue. Initially, the scar tissue is ...

A method was successfully tested by scientists from the Bonn University Hospital in mice which allowed the morphological and functional sequelae of a myocardial infarction to be reduced.