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Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a mechanism involving ribosomes which helps the heart toggle between a 'regular maintenance mode' for day-to-day ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

New discoveries about the mechanisms underlying the regeneration of heart tissue raise hope that drugs can be identified to help the body grow muscle cells and remove scar tissue, important steps in ...

A healthy heart beats 50 to 100 times a minute and pumps 8,000 litres of blood around our body every day. A precondition for this function is the elasticity of the cardiac walls, which dilate as blood ...

Much of the persistent confusion about the cellular actions of digitalis may be attributed to three factors. First of all, digitalis and related cardio-active steroids exert their therapeutic actions ...

Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare -- affecting less than 1% of patients given the ...

Dysregulation of transcription is associated with the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, including congenital heart diseases and heart failure. However, it remains unclear how transcription ...

However, this treatment type may also trigger damaging levels of inflammation in the heart, brain, stomach, and other organs, the researchers say. For example, past studies have shown that about 10% ...

A new study from a team of scientists in Germany has revealed a previously undiscovered mechanism showing how caffeine can trigger the repair of heart muscles. The research, at this stage only ...