Cells can also send out packages called exosomes, lipid vesicles that bubble off from the cell membrane. But for about 20 ...

"Here we characterized Tunneling Nanotube-Like Structures (TNTLs), which we found physically connecting cardiomyocytes in myocardium to endocardial cells in endocardium," reports Wu. "These structures ...

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is offering new hope for treating heart disease by sharing his insights into the ...

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is ...

Embryology is the discipline concerned with the study of embryogenesis, the development of the embryo from a fertilised egg cell. Findings in embryology have helped in the understanding of ...

Immunological techniques include both experimental methods to study the immune system and methods to generate or use immunological reagents as experimental tools. The most common immunological ...

The strong shear stress altered the membrane lipid microdomain structure of endocardial cells, which activated mTORC2 and PKC and promoted Notch1 cleavage even in the absence of strong ligand ...

A congenital heart defect is one that's present at birth Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Congenital heart disease ...

Introduction: Unsuccessful endocardial ablation for perimitral atrial flutter (AFL) could be attributed by the epicardial bridging. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the electrophysiological ...

Shaping the animal body plan is a complex process that involves the spatial organization and patterning of the different germ layers. Recent advances in live imaging have started to unravel the ...