The Scientist : Cardiac myocytes divide after myocardial infarction [8/6/2001]

Cardiac myocytes divide after myocardial infarction

Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010608-02

8 June 2001

The scarring of the heart tissue after a myocardial infarction suggests that the myocytes are unable to divide. In June 7 New England Journal of Medicine Antonio Beltrami and colleagues from the New York Medical College, Valhalla, challenge the current dogma and demonstrate the existence of a significant degree of mitosis among myocytes after myocardial infarction in humans.

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