Sentences with phrase «myocardial cells»
"Myocardial cells" are the cells found in the muscles of the heart. Full definition
For the purpose of additional experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells from embryonic stem cells and human skin cells, in collaboration with the lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.
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Removal of gata5 from cells normally destined to become myocardial cells caused profound defects in the formation of the heart.
The researchers analysed the genetic composition of myocardial cells using state - of - the - art gene sequencing technology.
Moreover, in collaboration with Prof Dr Henrik Milting at the Heart and Diabetes Center in Bad Oeynhausen, the researchers from Bochum analysed isolated myocardial cells from explanted hearts of patients.
«Discovery of a gene that could convert human embryonic stem cells into myocardial cells would be golden,» said Didier Stainier, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, the senior author of the UCSF study and a pioneer in the study of heart development in the transparent zebrafish embryo.
The mutant mice had fewer myocardial cells and disruptions of the muscle integrity that eventually led to prenatal death.
Normally, the gene acts only in those embryonic cells destined to become myocardial cells.
Toxins act on the myocardial cells or the autonomic nervous system to affect heart rate, blood pressure, or cardiac contractility.