Cellular and Molecular Cardiology

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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.

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