Muscle cells take heart

Muscle cells take heart

JCB • VOLUME 169 • NUMBER 1 • 2005 16 Folding in a crowd roteins fold better in a crowd, as predicted by a biophysical model from Margaret Cheung, Dmitri Klimov, and D. Thirumalai (University of Maryland, College Park, MD). Interactions between a protein and large nearby molecules produce repulsive forces at distances that can be as large as the protein itself. The group modeled the energetic e...

Elevated Troponin? Take Heart and Reconsider!

Heart transplantation is a very effective treatment option for patients with many end-stage cardiac pathologies. Unfortunately, a shortage of donor organs limits the number of patients who benefit from this intervention, and many patients still die while awaiting transplantation. Per the Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients, the estimated overall heart transplant wait-list mortality fo...

Elevated Troponin? Take Heart and Reconsider!

Heart transplantation is a very effective treatment option for patients with many end-stage cardiac pathologies. Unfortunately, a shortage of donor organs limits the number of patients who benefit from this intervention, and many patients still die while awaiting transplantation. Per the Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients, the estimated overall heart transplant wait-list mortality fo...

Intracellular Mg++ concentrations in vascular smooth muscle cells and heart muscle cells in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Identification of Two Main Independent Components of Fibrillating Heart Muscle

Fibrillation is a hazardous phenomenon in cardiac muscle and so any new work towards the understanding of this process is important to the development of new methods in diagnosis and therapy. In this work we have used surface and intra cardiac ECGs of patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (AF). By means of the blind source separation (BSS) algorithm, which is a well-known method in signal p...