Heart cells respond to stiff environments

Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:21 in Health & Medicine

Proteins associated with the regulation of organ size and shape have been found to respond to the mechanics of the microenvironment in ways that specifically affect the decision of adult cardiac stem cells to generate muscular or vascular cells.

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