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The importance of scaffolding proteins for heart cell functionKing's College London | Professor Franca Fraternali
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. It can run in families and can affect more than one member of a family. The disease is caused by faulty genes carried in a person’s DNA. Dr Franca Fraternali and her colleagues at King’s ...
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How supporter cells instruct heart muscle cells to behave normallyImperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano
There are two types of cell in the heart, cells that contract to make it beat (myocytes) and cells that don't contract, but provide support for the myocytes (fibroblasts). These researchers at Imperial College London propose that fibroblast...
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Studying how stem cells turn into heart muscle cells during developmentCardiff University | Dr Branko Latinkic
Dr Branko Latinkic and his team at the University of Cardiff are developing new ways to study heart development. We don’t fully understand how the heart muscle forms, and it is difficult to study heart development in mammals because emb...
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Studying t-tubule structure and function in normal and damaged heart muscleImperial College London | Dr Eva Rog Zielinska
The main pumping chambers of the heart, the ventricles, are made up of billions of muscle cells. For our hearts to pump, electrical signals must spread rapidly from the pacemaker within the heart to ‘activate’ the cells in the ventricles to...
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Do RIP proteins control life and death in heart muscle cells?University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Professor Angela Clerk is studying how heart muscle cells die after a heart attack to identify points where we could intervene and prevent it. The team is studying a new form of cell death called necroptosis, which could be important in the...
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Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010
2010 Coronary Heart Disease Statistics
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A new imaging technique to help doctors spot when heart muscle becomes diseasedUniversity of Oxford | Professor Damian Tyler
Our hearts need to convert fuels (sugars and fats) into energy to enable them to beat. But we know that in heart disease, this process becomes altered, and the heart muscle cannot use fuel correctly. Dr Damian Tyler, from the University...
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Around 600,000 in the UK living with faulty gene that could lead to heart failure
Around 1 per cent of the population carry a faulty gene which could trigger a dangerous heart condition in seemingly healthy people, if the heart is placed under abnormal stress, such as through pregnancy or alcoholism, according to research we helped to fund.
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Landmark Scottish study on 'neglected area of cardiology'
Researchers funded by the BHF are to carry out the first national study into a potentially fatal heart condition which affects thousands of people in the UK
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How much protein do I need to gain muscle?
If protein is needed for building and repairing muscle, do you need to eat extra to gain more muscle quicker? Senior Dietitian, Victoria Taylor, explains.