cardiac muscle

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function.

Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, causing irreparable damage to cardiac muscle cells.

Repairing cardiac muscle after a heart attack is the "holy grail" of heart research, complicated by the fact that heart tissue does not regenerate on its own.

The team previously explored how cardiac muscle contractions are affected by temperature, determining that our heart can contract efficiently within the body temperature range.

Located at the top of the organ, they produce a mild electrical pulse that travels down through the cardiac muscle, causing the heart’s four chambers to pulse in the familiar two-part “lub-dub” beat.