A Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a previously unknown signaling system that helps regulate heart growth during ...

Efforts to foster both intrinsic and extrinsic regenerative responses in heart failure have once again brought iPS cell technologies to the forefront, thanks to their flexibility in reconstructing ...

A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart — epicardium cells — according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers. "In 2012, we ...

Medical researchers have found that a key to the zebrafish's ability to regenerate cardiac tissue lies in the outer layer of the heart known as the epicardium. When this critical layer is damaged, the ...

A study revealed that the neurohormone oxytocin induces epicardial cell proliferation, which is vital in forming Epicardium-derived Progenitor Cells (EpiPCs). A function of oxytocin discovered in a ...