# Researchers discover an unexpected regulator of heart repair

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/researchers-discover-an-unexpected-regulator-of-heart-repair-2/
- Published: 2021-11-26T09:45:11-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Article by Tiare Dunlap. UCLA Research Brief – November 23, 2021. FINDINGS A study using mice by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA reveals that cardiac muscle cells play a pivotal role in determining how the heart heals following a heart attack. The findings challenge a longstanding paradigm about heart repair and identify a protein that could serve as a target for drugs to treat or prevent heart failure […] Click here to view original web page at newsroom.ucla.edu