Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium ... including fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, and cardiomyocytes. Cardiac muscle only develops in the heart. It contains cardiac muscle cells, which perform ...

Not all scars are created equal. That's the conclusion of a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers: They found that two distinct types of scars, referred to as "hot" and "cold," can ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult ...

Further analysis showed an increase in the quantity of fibroblasts (a cell that donates materials for wound healing) and more scar tissue—known as fibrosis—in the heart. The researchers suggest in ...

A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren't so lucky.

F-FAPI PET -- can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), providing physicians with an early marker for disease progression. This approach ...

After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar tissue buildup and, often, heart failure. A study in mice by Northwestern Medicine researchers has ...

A new molecular imaging technique— 18 F-FAPI PET—can detect the first signs of tissue ... heart and pulmonary artery of patients decreased, suggesting the potential reversibility of fibroblast ...