The Healing Heart

This video shows what happens in a mouse heart after a heart attack. Healthy muscle in an area of the lower heart is replaced by inflexible scar tissue, but blood supply is maintained – which gives hope for future ways of mending the heart after a heart attack.

 

Gillian Gray and Megan Swim

University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh

 

Harris Morrison

Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh

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Uploaded on May 3, 2013