TY - JOUR T1 - HEart repair AU - Friedrich MJ Y1 - 2010/05/05 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2010.526 JO - JAMA SP - 1686 EP - 1686 VL - 303 IS - 17 N2 - Investigators at Duke University Medical School in Durham, NC, showed that cardiomyocytes expressing the cardiogenesis gene gata4 (revealed by green fluorescence) proliferated and helped replace damaged cardiac cells. They also found that the cardiomyocytes helped renew scarred tissue, which occurs in humans after heart muscle dies during myocardial infarction (Kikuchi K et al. Nature. 2010;464[7288]:601-605). SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.526 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.526 ER -