Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:35 in Health & Medicine

A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

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