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From The Labs

Image of the Month: cardiac fibroblasts

November 5, 2019 cardiac fibroblasts,  heart attack,  heart failure,  Hippo pathway,  LATS 1/2,  Research

This Image of the Month features the cardiac fibroblast, a cell that is central to heart failure, the leading cause of mortality in the U.S.

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Tapping on the healing capacity of the heart

January 5, 2018 Heart disease and regeneration,  heart failure,  Hippo pathway,  injured heart,  mouse model,  regeneration

If your skin is injured, it can heal itself. If you lose blood, your body makes more. If a lobe is removed from a mouse

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How Gata4 helps mend a broken heart

August 14, 2017 Cardiac regeneration,  cardiomyocytes,  fibroblasts,  fibrosis,  Gata4,  heart attack,  heart failure,  scar tissue,  tissue reprograming

During a heart attack, blood stops flowing into the heart; starved for oxygen, part of the heart muscle dies. The heart muscle does not regenerate;

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From the Labs: Image of the Month

Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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