Circular waves: Images of cardiac cells that have been treated with a calcium fluorescent dye. Red cells are "excited" and blue cells are "resting". Reading clockwise from the top left to the bottom ...

Lab-grown hearts with immune cells develop atrial fibrillation after chronic inflammation, offering a new way to test ...

Interfering with inflammatory signals produced by heart muscle cells might someday provide novel therapeutic strategies for atrial fibrillation, according to an international team of researchers.

Interfering with inflammatory signals produced by heart muscle cells might someday provide novel therapeutic strategies for atrial fibrillation, according to an international team of researchers who ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Millions of adults have atrial fibrillation — an irregular beating of the upper chambers of the heart that yields increased risk of heart failure, stroke and death. Many genetic ...

RECENT studies of the phenomenon of fibrillation in denervated muscle have shown that it is subject to considerable variation. Since this phenomenon is becoming of increasing importance in the ...

A new study has found that using anabolic steroids could raise the risk of a serious heart problem called atrial fibrillation ...