Stanford Medicine
- Aug 28, 2018
- 4 min
Diseased heart muscle cells have abnormally shortened telomeres
Patients with cardiomyopathy have abnormally short telomeres in the cells responsible for heart contraction, Stanford researchers find....
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Defytime Emea
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
World Heart Day
Heart disease is the leading cause of death and disability in several countries such as Malaysia, where heart disease remains as the...
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Defytime Emea
- Sep 8, 2017
- 1 min
Researchers find correlation between shorter telomeres and presence of heart failure
Each cell in the average human body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, with four telomeres on each pair. Telomeres cover the end of the...
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