When a cardiac muscle cell contracts, the myosin filament pulls the actin filaments toward each other, which causes the cell to shrink. The cell uses ATP to power this contraction. A single myosin ...

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with cardiovascular disease and is now being tested in humans ...

A team of researchers led by Emory's Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow and survive in the microgravity environment of space. The team's findings, published in Biomaterials, ...

Members of Theme Six are developing stem cell and ... loss of heart muscle after myocardial infarction. One current approach is to investigate gene pathways, many of which are important in heart ...

There are different types of muscle cell, each perfectly adapted to its function: Cardiac (heart) muscle cells contract and relax to pump blood around our bodies for our entire lives. They never ...

A variety of preclinical and clinical studies using different cell types have demonstrated variable degrees of improvement in cardiac function ... be encompassed by a single or small number ...