Current drugs work at the surface of heart muscle cells to block stress hormones, such as adrenaline, that are produced when the heart is injured. (gladstone.org)
In addition, their studies also had implicated the protein in pathways that controlled cell death in heart muscle. (sciencedaily.com)
Many people with heart injuries from heart attacks or birth defects could benefit from the «self - therapeutic» process of injecting healthy cells into the damaged heart muscle. (sciencedaily.com)