Find out what happens to heart cells in space and how their adaptation could revolutionize heart disease treatment.

Mitochondrial diseases, arising from mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are a diverse group of disorders that lead to ...

Mitochondria generate molecules that provide ... such as arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, and muscle weakness, potentially leading to paralysis. “Potassium is a key element in the electrical signal ...

Breakthrough Cardiac Regeneration Research Offers Hope ... a precise picture of how an ion channel found in most mammalian cells regulates its own function with a 'ball-and-chain' channel-plugging ...

In this valuable report, the authors investigated the effect of mitochondrial transplantation on post-cardiac ... number of normal mitochondria. This finding suggests that the majority of mitochondria ...

It has been shown that the regulation of the extracellular matrix via cardiac fibroblasts plays a major role in ... of proinflammatory genes through endothelin in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs).

The mutated stem cells also contained turbocharged mitochondria, which gave the cells a strong competitive growth advantage. "This was really unexpected," Trowbridge said. "This gene was not ...

Yet organelles are to cells what organs are to bodies ... a treatment for premature babies who, because the mitochondria in their heart muscles have been damaged by ischemia (the medical term ...