How the heart sends an SOS signal to bone marrow cells after a heart attack
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 14:40
in Biology & Nature
Human cells shed exosomes. These tiny extracellular, membrane-bound vesicles can carry cargo for cell-to-cell communication, ferrying diverse loads of proteins, lipids or nucleic acids. University of Alabama at Birmingham and Chinese researchers now report that exosomes are key to the SOS signal that the heart muscle sends out after a heart attack. After the heart […]