Sunday, 3 March 2013

Response to Cardiac Stress Elaborated in New Study

Increased stress on the heart leads to a condition called myocardial hypertrophy, which is a thickening of the heart muscle. As the heart muscle expands, it also requires greater blood flow to maintain access to oxygen and nutrients, necessitating an expansion of the cardiac vasculature. In this issue of the iJournal of Clinical Investigation/i, Daniela Tirziu and researchers at Yale University identified a molecular mechanism by which the growth of new blood ...

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