Linking heart attack damage to the spleen and kidney, an integrated study of heart failure

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Ganesh Halade, who uses a mouse heart attack model to research ways to prevent heart failure, has published a functional and structural compendium of the simultaneous changes taking place in the heart, spleen and kidneys in mice during the period of acute heart failure immediately following a heart attack and during the longer period of chronic heart failure that comes next.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news