Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ...

Despite being mainly composed of terminally differentiated myocytes that cannot re-enter the cell cycle, the heart is not a postmitotic organ and maintains some capacity to form new parenchymal ...

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...