San Diego—Thanks to genetic analysis of a porcine model, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are one step closer to understanding the effect of myocardial infarction on the cardiac nervous system.
According to preliminary data, chronic myocardial infarction induces remote changes in both the peripheral and central nervous systems. The fact that these changes occur regionally and are limited to the thoracic neuraxis suggests that this response may be due to