Maintaining Heart Function After a Heart Attack
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- An article published in
Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 246, Issue 5, March, 2021) (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1535370220969844) reports a new therapeutic option for preventing long-term damage to the heart after a heart attack. The study, led by Dr. Y. James Kang, in the Regenerative Medicine Research Center at Sichuan University in Chengdu (China) and the Memphis Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN (USA), reports that inhibition of the copper chaperone COMMD1 blocks myocardial injury and maintains heart function in a mouse model of myocardial ischemia.