Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium ... Cardiac muscle cells appear striated or striped under a microscope. These stripes occur due to alternating filaments that comprise myosin and actin ...

Two proteins in the sarcomeres, which give the tissue the characteristic striation pattern, were marked with antibodies and visualized by different fluorophore-conjugated antibodies: titin appears ...

Scientists have successfully grown human heart ... tissues under stressed conditions to see what makes them more susceptible to this often deadly condition. But Costa pointed out the tissue ...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart muscle tissue ... X-ray microscope that the ...

The difference between a heart cell and a liver cell ... "Whenever a pathologist gets a tissue sample, they stain it and look at it under the microscope -- it's how they diagnose disease ...

A research team led by Asst. Prof. Gulden Camci-Unal of the Department of Chemical Engineering is developing new “breathable” biomaterials that can repair heart muscle damaged by disease or heart ...

Since heart muscle cells don't regenerate, the repair consists of cobbling together a scar tissue patch. The problem is that the scar can invade healthy heart tissue in the days or weeks following ...

As I look through a microscope, the blob, which is made of artificially created heart tissue, starts to jiggle in response to an electric current. It’s like a real heart reacting to stimulus ...

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...