New Role Found For A Cardiac Progenitor Population

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 22:21 in Health & Medicine

In a discovery that could one day lead to an understanding of how to regenerate damaged heart tissue, researchers have found that parent cells involved in embryonic development of the epicardium -- the cell layer surrounding the outside of the heart -- give rise to three important types of cells with potential for cardiac repair.

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