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- noun Plural form of
cardiomyocyte .
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For instance, targeting of genes encoding components of the contractile apparatus in cardiomyocytes leads to cardiomyopathy; targeted mutations in connexin proteins of gap junctions cause conduction defects; disrupted genes for transcription factors involved in heart development lead to congenital heart malformations; and targeting of genes controlling energy metabolism causes cardiomyopathy.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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"Everyone started putting bone marrow in the heart," says Christine Mummery, a researcher at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, who has studied how to turn stem cells into heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes.
The Seattle Times 2011
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After these conditions damage the heart, heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes enlarge as the body tries to respond and compensate, increasing the organ's size.
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Earlier research by Yeh and colleagues showed CD34+ cells are capable of becoming heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, blood vessel cells and smooth muscle cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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After these conditions damage the heart, heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes enlarge as the body tries to respond and compensate, increasing the organ's size.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Instead, repair is accomplished by differentiated cardiac muscle cells known as cardiomyocytes, those cellular grown-ups whose normal job is to supply the contractile force of the heart.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The main problem is that when beating muscles cells - known as cardiomyocytes - die during an attack there is no way to reactivate them and the surrounding
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This remarkable heart repair is achieved by differentiated cardiac muscle cells called cardiomyocytes -- not stem cells, but mature cells that normally supply the contractile force of the heart.
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Instead, repair is accomplished by differentiated cardiac muscle cells known as cardiomyocytes, those cellular grown-ups whose normal job is to supply the contractile force of the heart.
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The main problem is that when beating muscles cells - known as cardiomyocytes - die during an attack there is no way to reactivate them and the surrounding connective tissue - known as fibroblasts - cannot take over their role.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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