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Heart recovery post heart attack mapped with great detail: Researchers

04:00 PM Feb 01, 2021 | Team Udayavani |

Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute claim to have mapped the recovery of the heart after a heart attack with great detail.

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They found that heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes play an important role in intracellular communication after a heart attack.

Researchers studied how the hearts of mice recover at three different time points following a heart attack using single-cell sequencing. The researchers generated an enormous dataset with information about the role of different types of cells during the recovery process after a heart attack.

The study has been published in Communications Biology

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