Mahmoud was especially interested in the heart as damage to tissue and cells from heart attacks and chronic heart disease leaves permanent scars. Broken bones mend and split skin knits itself ...

Uri Alon. Alon's model suggested classifying scars by the presence of two types of cells in the scar tissue: collagen-producing fibroblasts, which create fibrous scaffolding, and immune cells ...

After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar-tissue buildup and, often, heart failure. A new Northwestern Medicine study in experimental animals ...

The ECG findings of a posterior wall myocardial infarction are different than the ... A posterior wall MI occurs when posterior myocardial tissue (now termed inferobasilar), usually supplied ...

Recent research has focused on various methods to convert cardiac fibroblasts (the cells that form scar tissue after heart ... reduce fibrosis in chronic myocardial infarction.

Following injury, many organs are capable of rapid regeneration of necrotic tissue to regain normal function. In contrast, ...

An anterior wall myocardial infarction occurs when anterior myocardial tissue usually supplied by the left anterior descending coronary artery suffers injury due to lack of blood supply.

Prof Ascione has a long-standing interest in developing new cardiovascular treatments based on regenerative medicine and tissue engineering technologies to help patients with heart attack/myocardial ...