Tag: heart disease
Stem Cell Banking: Current Trends, Benefits, Emerging Issues and Challenges
Recent scientific advancements have made stem cell therapy an emerging and promising area of research. The establishment of stem cell banks around the globe...
Recapitulating Pharmacology With Genetics
The medical term for heart rate over 100 beats per minute is tachycardia. The small molecule ivabradine reduces heart rate via specific inhibition of...
Some Brugada Syndrome Patients At Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Death Have GSTM3 Deletion
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a disorder of the heart rhythm that can result in sudden cardiac death, which may be triggered by circumstances, and...
Therapeutic Avenue For Acute Coronary Syndrome? – Exploring The Circular RNA Profile
Circular RNAs (circRNA) result from pre-mRNA back-splicing. Next generation sequencing has a blind spot for these circRNAs due to their lack of polyA tails...
Making Associations With Dilated Cardiomyopathy Using MRI
Under the condition of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood effectively, which can proceed to heart failure. It is...
Kidney Injury After Heart Surgery – A Japan National Center Biobank Network Investigation
Sudden injury to the kidneys or acute kidney injury (AKI) in which waste excretion into urine is impaired can occur as a result of...
Understanding Titin Gene Mutation In Heart Disease; Penn Medicine And Geisinger Close In
In a new study published in the journal Circulation, researchers from Penn Medicine and Geisinger reviewed TTN (titin) gene sequences of more than 70,000...
Biobanking Science: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is one of the most common inherited heart diseases, affecting 1:200 people (1). Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have thickened left ventricles which...

















