| Literature DB >> 15521146 |
Abstract
A heart broken by love usually heals with time, but damage to cardiac muscle caused by a heart attack gets progressively worse. Unlike liver or skin, heart tissue cannot regenerate, so the scar left after a heart attack remains a noncontractile dead zone.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15521146
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Am ISSN: 0036-8733 Impact factor: 2.142