Born to heal: Why babies recover, but adults scar, after heart damage
Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults ...
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Drug in clinical trials for breast cancer could also treat some blood cancers
In the Nature Communications study, inhibiting RSK1 helped reverse the progression of MPNs in mice, reducing fibrosis, or scar formation, in the bone marrow. Inhibiting RSK1 eliminated up to 96% ...
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Predicting Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction: From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry
Given changes in patient characteristics and treatments over time, a contemporary risk model for patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) is needed. Data from 313 825 acute MI hospitalizations ...
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Interleukin-10 exhibit dose-dependent effects on macrophage phenotypes and cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction
Introduction: Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a potent immunomodulatory cytokine widely explored as a therapeutic agent for diseases, including myocardial infarction (MI ... of the entire left ventricular ...
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Cardiac stem cells: isolation, expansion and experimental use for myocardial regeneration
Indeed, these studies form the scientific background to innovative therapeutic approaches that rely on recruitment of these cells to the damaged tissue and improvement of local cardiac stem cell ...
Medscape18y
Low-Dose Enalapril in the Treatment of Surgical Cutaneous Hypertrophic Scar and Keloid - Two Case Reports and Literature Review
On the basis of our observations, we reviewed the available literature concerning scar or fibrous tissue production as influenced by angiotensin-converting enzyme, angiotensin II (an important ...