Several studies have suggested that these morphological findings could be a marker of myocardial disease. The authors present two cases of cardiac arrest (CA) due to ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ...

Maintaining good oral hygiene is about more than just a bright smile—it could also play a crucial role in protecting your ...

This review seeks to explore the possible ways radiation therapy modifies the electrophysiological properties of cardiac myocytes and alters myocardial conduction, contributing to its anti-arrhythmic ...

FAO is catalyzed by the mitochondrial trifunctional protein (MTP) and, if overloaded, generates ROS. ROS are boosted during ...

Now, researchers from Japan have identified a mechanism which protects cardiac myocytes against ischemia, or a lack of blood supply. In this study published online on 25 July 2024 in Nature ...

Understanding the mechanisms behind cell death and survival is crucial when it comes to conditions like heart failure, which ...

within the cells of the heart muscle (cardiac myocytes). Potassium is both essential to generating a regular heartbeat and stabilizing the heart, helping to stave off potentially deadly cardiac ...

Cardiac hypertrophy and its associated remodeling are among the leading causes of heart failure. Lysine crotonylation is a recently discovered posttranslational modification whose role in cardiac ...

In the medical world, the term arrest is used often to describe a condition where something that should be happening has stopped. Though respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest mean specific things, the ...

The updated 2018 AHA/ACC Multisociety Cholesterol Guideline further refined the secondary prevention category and expanded the scope of primary prevention to include all age groups. This piece offers ...