For many years, scientists believed that the adult human heart could not replace muscle cells lost during a heart attack. When blood flow to part of the heart is blocked, oxygen-starved cardiomyocytes, the cells responsible for contraction, die. The damaged region is then largely replaced with scar tissue, which does not contract as effectively as…
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