Heart experts thus have sought to create new tissue — applying a patch of heart muscle cells or injecting heart cells — to replace damaged muscle. Similarly, they have tried to stimulate division of ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere ... focuses on unraveling mechanisms of genetic heart and skeletal muscle diseases using animal models, ...

The results of the study were published in Circulation Research. The heartbeat is carried out by specialized heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes that can neither divide nor renew themselves.