While lower vertebrates can repair their adult hearts after a heart attack, mammals — including humans — cannot. The ability to regenerate dead muscle tissue in mammalian hearts disappears just a few days after birth because the heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, exit the cell cycle. After that, all growth of the heart comes from […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham: Changed gene expression after heart surgery extends cardiomyocyte regeneration
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- Post published:August 1, 2022
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