In a recent study published in the journal Angiogenesis, a team of researchers compared cardiac autopsy samples from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positive cases with ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) regulates protein folding and maintains proteostasis in cells- a process essential to maintaining cellular health. However, researchers at UAB have found that chronic ...

Proteotoxic stress over time can cause irreversible cardiac abnormalities. Proteotoxicity, the damage caused by faulty proteins, contributes to a severe form of heart disease. Rajasekaran ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Routine return-to-play (RTP) cardiac screening of professional athletes with previous COVID-19 ...

heart tissue Causes of death in patients with epilepsy were assessed to determine the presence of cardiac pathology. There does not appear to be a higher prevalence of cardiac fibrosis among patients ...

HEMOCHROMATOSIS is a disease of excessive iron storage leading to fibrosis and other tissue damage in many organs of the body. It has long been known that one of the organs frequently involved is the ...

What Is the Heart Conduction System? The heart conduction system is made up of cells, nodes, and signals that help your heart to beat. In fact, the cardiac conduction system is responsible for our ...

Cardiac muscle tissue is only found in your heart. It performs involuntary, coordinated contractions that allow your heart to pump blood through your circulatory system. Cardiac muscle tissue is one ...