A collaborative study reveals two kinds of scarring, dubbed hot and cold, in injured heart tissue, suggesting that treatments must take the type of scar into account Not all scars are created equal.

When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.

New research discovers a potential path to prevent permanent scarring and heart failure following a myocardial infarction. A new study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have reduced scar formation and improved heart function in mouse models of heart failure using a monoclonal antibody treatment. Untreated mice develop major scarring ...

During a severe heart attack many heart muscle cells die and are replaced by scar tissue to stabilize the heart wall. Connective tissue cells, known as fibroblasts (FB), are the dominant cell type in ...

Researchers have reduced scar formation and improved heart function in mouse models of heart failure using a monoclonal antibody treatment, similar to that approved by the FDA to treat other ...