श्री चित्रा तिरुनाल आयुर्विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, त्रिवेंद्रम
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
The Division aims at fostering interdisciplinary research in cardiovascular biology, focusing on the etiology and pathogenesis of cardiac diseases. A full-fledged cell culture facility with standardized protocols for the isolation and culture of cardiac fibroblasts and cardiomyocytes permits incisive investigations in cardiac biology which, at this point in time, include: isolation and cloning of human resident adult cardiac stem cells; determination of the genetic component in hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy; metabolic modulation in the prevention of cardiac remodeling, and molecular mechanisms in collagen turnover, cell cycle progression and apoptosis resistance in cardiac fibroblasts.